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Perfection Quotes


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


"Perfection is born of imperfection."


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


"Be not perfect, be just and kind."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"The only measurement I understand is 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."


"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."


"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."


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