Perfection Quotes - Page 42

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

I truly am the reflection of perfection.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.