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Perfection Quotes


"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."


"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."


"Drop all ideas of becoming someone; you are already perfect."


"Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection."


"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."


"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."


"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."


"Be not perfect, be just and kind."


"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."


"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done."


"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."


"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."


"Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill."


"I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years."


"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."


"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."


"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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