Perfection Quotes - Page 25

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

I expect perfection from myself.

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.