Perfection Quotes - Page 41

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Be content with nothing less than perfection.

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.

Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of His goodness, in other things more of His wisdom is seen, and in others more of His power. But in the work of redemption all His perfections and excellencies shine forth in their greatest glory.

Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.

And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.