Perfect Quotes - Page 64

In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.

Just because something isn't happening for you right now, doesn't mean it won't happen. God's timing is perfect.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.

It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

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

There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.

My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect, perfection is impossible but every day you get closer and that's what I want . Every day I want to get better than I was the day before. I want to use every second of my life, every time I have in my life to make me a better fighter. It's more than a job it's a way of living.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.