Quotes About Perfection

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

Instant replay ought to be thrown out. Period. It's a game of imperfections. Why is that so bad for the game? Really, I think they are trying to make the game perfect. I'll tell you what: It will never, ever be perfect.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

There are spots that I have to hit. Throws I can't miss.

A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.

We have to keep a very tight check on quality.

On a short program, you've got to be tight and you've got to make sure that you get all your points.

In this world there is very little harmony between the inner and the outer life. But, if we live according to the will of God, then the time will come when there will be perfect harmony between the inner and the outer life for ever. The outer will be exactly like the inner and the inner exactly like the outer. And by his grace we shall become perfect like our Father in Heaven.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.

The reality, however, is that "better" is not better. Better is a mirage. It keeps you chained to the same way of working as your competition. Better is temporary. Better is a flimsy edge that can be toppled in a millisecond by someone with a bigger following, a lower price, a more convenient location, a fancier degree, a shinier award, a newer technology, a more skillful skill. Better is not always better. Sometimes, it's worse.

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist's ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.

It's where a thing can't be beautiful or perfect without an imperfection. Say,