Quotes About Perfection

I am fearful of romantic dinners, huge crowds, dusk - of normal things- afraid to be loved, the one thing I want most. Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it because I am not that perfect little girl that I was supposed to be, well manicured and well groomed, because I have nervous breakdowns, and take pills, and keep moving on.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a height from which they begin to decline, and when they have begun to decline it is a pity that they cannot be knocked on the head; for an art is like a living organism—better dead than dying.

If there was an ethos at Squid Frames, it came from the elevation of craft. When a piece of wood was stained and finished particularly well, eyebrows were raised but little was said. The type of things that would score the most admiration were precisely the things that others would not recognize at all, because when the frames were well made, the eye would simply travel to the art.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

It is a foolish thing well done.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies. Ortega y Gasset, On Love

It's our job to tell them that imperfect health is and always has been perfect health, and that most of the things that go wrong with their bodies we can't do much about. So maybe we do make diagnoses; big deal. We hardly ever cure.

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power… imagination.

You can make amends of your flaws and faults if you strive for perfection and succeed

And wasn't it amazing that an imperfection could make a perfect thing even more perfect?

It's a well-known fact that professional organizers who have a three-year-old and a toddler get an exemption from perfection.

Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.

The thing was, being perfect didn't mean anything if it wasn't real.

Are you okay? he asked leaning slightly towards her. -Don't I look okay? -You look perfect as always. I asked how you felt.

With perfection comes pressure. Students here are some of the best in the country, and sometimes, they have to let off a little steam. What five girls don't know, though, is that steam can scald just as badly as an open flame.

There are all these perfect people here. And it's like if you're not one of them, then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just messed up as we are.

Being sick is not an imperfection.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.