Quotes About Perfection

It's the quest for perfection that makes athletes great.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

I certainly know women who had children, quit their jobs, and still have full-time nannies. That's who these women are: Even to the detriment of their own relationship with their kids, they want to appear perfect Martha Stewart moms.

I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.

I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they've got quite a lot of the weight on their shoulders in terms of how they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to like and how they're supposed to act.

Even when we've been winning, we still look at things that we could have done better, whether it be on the racetrack, on pit road, just little things to maximize our day.

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

'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.

It is rare for a joke to emerge fully formed and it is worth grafting away until it is absolutely right. Though perversely too much work, too much thought, can destroy a gag completely.

I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

I have the feeling that you can get older here in Germany, or in Europe, but in Hollywood, you have to look perfect all the time. So it's really hard.

Whenever Germany lose or play badly, there are 1,000 reasons. And no matter how many questions there are, we will never make everyone happy.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Four More Shots' is high on the glamour quotient and has perfect looking women. But to constantly look perfect is quite exhausting.

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'

My big challenge, I will say, is contouring. God help us all with contouring.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

Better is the enemy of good.