Quotes About Perfection

A verdade, porém, é que não existo nem eu, nem outra coisa qualquer. Todo este universo, e todos os outros universos, com seus diversos criadores e seus diversos Satãs mais ou menos perfeitos e adestrados são vácuos dentro do vácuo, nadas que giram, satélites, na órbita inútil de coisa nenhuma.

We're well aware that every creative work is imperfect and that our most dubious aesthetic contemplation will be the one whose object is what we write. But everything is imperfect. There's no sunset so lovely it couldn't be yet lovelier, no gentle breeze bringing us sleep that couldn't bring yet sounder sleep.

What grieves me is that my best is no good, and that another whom I dream of, if he existed, would have done it better.

I'm always astonished whenever I finish anything. Astonished and depressed. My desire for perfection should prevent me from ever finishing anything; it should prevent me even from starting.

The perfect man, for the pagans, was the perfection of the man that exists; for Christians, the perfection of the man that does not exist; and for Buddhists, the perfection of no man existing.

Porque no vayáis a creer que escribo para publicar, ni para escribir, ni siquiera por hacer arte. Escribo porque ese es el fin, la perfección suprema, la perfección temperamentalmente ilógica [...] de mi cultivo de estados del alma.

And I who am saying all this – why am I writing this book? Because I realize it's imperfect. Dreamed, it would be perfection; written, it becomes imperfect; that's why I'm writing it. And above all else, because I advocate uselessness, absurdity, – I write this book to lie to myself, to be unfaithful to my own theory.

We worship perfection, because we cannot have it; and we would loathe it if we did. Perfection is inhuman, because to be human is to be imperfect.

Me fshi gjithçka nga dërrasa e zezë e një dite çfarëdo, me qenë i ri në çdo ag të ri, në një virgjni të re të përhershme t'emocionit: kjo dhe veç kjo ia vlen me qenë a me u pasë, për me qenë a me pasë atë që në mënyrë të papërkryeme jemi.

For me this sun, these meadows and these flowers are enough. But if they weren't enough, What I would want is a sun more sun than the sun, Meadows more meadows than these meadows, Flowers more flowers than these flowers— Everything more ideal than what it is, in the same way and same manner! That thing over there more there than it is!

The Liberal approach is that man has never fallen, never incurred guilt, and is ultimately perfectible by his own efforts. Therefore, evil in this light is a problem of better housing, sanitation, health, etc. and all mysteries will eventually be cleared up.

the two poles of Christ's exalted divinity and his suffering humanity as explicitly as does Hebrews. The result of this undertaking — the salvation of humanity — from out of the inner being of the Holy Trinity is, incredibly, that the hearts and minds of sinful human beings should be eternally perfected and at rest in the near presence of the heavenly Father.

There is makeup, there is hair, and there is the perfect light. There is a whole team that gets you to get that perfect picture. It's a fantasy.

When I do a fashion show, it's not done until it exits out of the door.

If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Faultless to a fault.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

The perfect fighter has never been born and never will be.

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.