Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
The truth is that much of the plastic surgery we see today has a racial or ethnic component because it has to do with inherently racial concepts of physical perfection, like the 'Roman nose.'
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
