Quotes About Perfection

It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did not see you often enough, or for long enough, for you to grow bored, or to feel afraid that you were not feeling love---or worse, that you were. The perfection had a cost, which is that he was not in any true sense a real person. He was a coat you bought off the rack, an unsuperlative fashion statement.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing

There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

In a perfect world the current laws would not apply.

There would not be an empty room without windows in a perfect world. In a perfect world, nothing would have happened yet. Everything would go without saying. All of the sayings would be given.

It takes a lot of effort to make something look effortless

Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Let's make one perfect day. And if it feels right, let's make another one tomorrow.

Nella vita di tutti i giorni [i francesi] hanno portato al massimo grado di perfezione quell'arte che, fra tutte, è la più utile e la più gradevole, l' art de vivre , l'arte della società e della conversazione. - David Hume, The Philosophical Works

God and all the attributes of God are eternal.

Buonarroti was later given the job of designing the huge dome of the new Basilica of St. Peter. It is well known how much he loved the simplicity and perfection of ancient Roman architecture. His favorite building of all was the Pantheon, the central shrine to the Greek and Roman idols, built by Hadrian in the first half of the second century.

Man is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.

By comparing my work afterward with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Regardless of what I do, no matter how good it is, it's never, in my mind, 'flawless.'

Japanese orchestras are generally playing at quite a high level on the first day of rehearsal, but they don't improve very much from there.

I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.