Quotes About Perfection

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.

You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

Find your life perfect and deal with what emerges.

These days we have insulated ourselves from the sounds of other people and nature. From infancy we are training young children to expect near perfect silence, and it becomes harder for them to sleep without it.

Our department takes 1,120 calls every day. Do you know how many of the calls the public expects perfection on? 1,120. Nobody calls the fire department and says, 'Send me two dumb-ass firemen in a pickup truck.' In three minutes they want five brain-surgeon decathlon champions to come and solve all their problems.

And that goes to show that when you are great, you are just great, and even when you do something bad, you are still great.

Keep practicing," he told her. "Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

Keep practicing," he told her. "Until I get it right," she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you never get it wrong

As the old saying went, Most people practice till they get it right. Rangers practice till they never get it wrong.

An ordinary archer practices till he gets it right. A ranger practices till he never gets it wrong.

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A Ranger practices . . .'?" He let the phrase hang in the air, waiting for them to finish it off. "Until he never gets it wrong

Until I get it right," she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

not bad isn't good enough, not bad can get you killed.

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

Sincerity (the scriptur[al] perfection) is the best of a Christian, the grace of every grace; for faith unfeigned and love in sincerity are the very nerves and sinews of Christianity.

the pope's being infallible was an impossibility, and the pope arrogantly laid claim to what could belong to God only, as a perfect being.

I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up a room by walking into it...