Quotes About Perfection

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

I wouldn't know what to say about something that worked in a perfect way, so I guess, in everything, I try to find what doesn't work and expose it and then see how it relates to people and their stories and their character.

When something is great, then you can sit back after the work is done and relax, but during the process I definitely am making sure everything is really, really good.

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

I don't want to release anything unless it's amazing.

Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

I hate holidays because one expects them to be perfect and so often they are not. There's the build-up, the looking forward to it and wanting everything to be right, but so many things can go wrong and then it can be such a disappointment. I find the expectation is usually bigger than the result.

Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

I always wanted to be the best at what I did; I wanted that at university, I wanted the first-class honour and to be the best in class.

My constant advice to my family - 'hopes high, expectations low' - is based on the idea that we can try our best to be perfect, but sometimes good enough has to be good enough.

I'm horrendous at capturing a decent selfie.

The world is full of nice hotels, but it is not full of great hotels.

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

I admire Hrithik Roshan for his work a lot. He has an edge over others because he is very hard on himself, he's never complacent, and he's still not happy with that. How much more perfect can you get than that?

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

He's perfect for anything. I would hire Hugh Jackman to come to my house and have dinner.

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

We have to do everything a hundred and ten percent when we're doing it. If we're on tour, we're constantly thinking of different ways to make the show better, or whatever it is.

I think it's important for anyone who is artistic to look back on their body of work and be critical. Maybe the Beatles can look back and say everything was perfect, but we've come up with hundreds and hundreds of dishes, and anyone who is honest with themselves has to realize that every single one wasn't an absolute, unequivocal home run.