Perfection Quotes - Page 50

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

Even women are perfect at the outset.

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.