Quotes About Perfection

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.

There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

For me, CG tends to feel watered down and it becomes cold because it's so perfect.

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondeaux sees as an immaculate performance has no corollary to what fans see as a perfect performance. In his mind, to make an opponent look terrible who has been lauded as exciting or favored against him gives him satisfaction.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

Hit shows are very difficult to achieve. You need to have everything just right - that's what's so terrifying.

I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.

imperfections were God's way of demonstrating His perfection and strength in our lives and ... incredible blessings could come through periods of absolute brokenness... It was undeniable to us now that the fruit of such intense toil and heartache was even sweeter when you had to work so hard to harvest it.

try to think of God as a vast, infinite, unified field of perfect love—and nothing else. (Equivalent terms would be joy or bliss; in Sanskrit, ananda.) Since very few humans have ever experienced such love, it's almost impossible to imagine. But if God is perfect love, and God created us "in His image," then we must also be perfect love.

If life is as meaningless as death, if guilt is as questionable as perfection, if being is no more meaningful than nonbeing, on what can one base the courage to be?

Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?