Top 1200 Perfection And Imperfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

'Random Rules' kicks off 'American Water,' and from its opening line - 'In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection' - you know you're in for something strange and special.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world.

The bottom line is that I'm not putting my life at risk in my quest for perfection. However, I 'm not endorsing cosmetic surgeries. At the same time I don't condemn them either.

You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt. It doesn't have the vibration or the power.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

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

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

I don't like the word 'perfectionist,' because it's self-flattering. It's tooting your own horn and implies that you actually can achieve perfection. I prefer 'particularist.'

We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Everyone should get sacked at least once. It forces you to look at yourself... It is important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life. Perfection doesn't exist.

I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It's the same discipline you employ in dance - you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's a strive for perfection.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

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.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

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

Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

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 like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.