Quotes About Perfection

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.

Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

God was just showing off when he created you.

Finis coronat opus [The end crowns the work].

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

A real diamond, his father used to say, is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

But although it may not have occurred to you, everything that happens on this island is connected. My grandfather planted that lawn and four generations have been looking after it, keeping it perfect – not just for our pleasure but for everyone who passes.

Finding the perfect job, perfect partner, or perfect place is as simple as perfecting yourself.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

In public, when my kids have not been behaving great - because that's life, my kids are not perfect, okay - I've noticed other people watching me. And I felt judged, because I'm obviously in the public eye. So that's been hard.

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

'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.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

Because of social media, we're so fixated on our appearances.

God gave me a good voice. I have perfect pitch. I don't sing flat.