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Perfection Quotes


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


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


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


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


"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."



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


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


"Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up. All you need is to be sure that GOD's hand is in it."



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


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



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


"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."


"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."


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



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



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


"Perfection is born of imperfection."


"If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections."


"If you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong."


"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."



"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."


"One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."


"After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot " how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point."


"Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved."


"The only measurement I understand is perfection."


"Be not perfect, be just and kind."


"When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible."


"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."


"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."


"Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely."


"I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect."


"Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life."
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