Perfection Quotes - Page 46

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

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

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Progress not perfection.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.