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Quotes About Perfection

I don't expect perfection, I expect excellence." I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Prodigies, it seemed, were made, not born. As Bloom later told reporters: "We were looking for exceptional kids, but what we found were exceptional conditions." This was a cornerstone finding, replicated and expanded and potent. The idea settled an uneasy corner of the nature/nurture debate: it democratized expertise. Provided the right environment and the proper encouragement, it meant that everyone had a shot at perfection. It meant there were no "chosen few.
~ Steven Kotler
Provided the right environment and the proper encouragement, it meant that everyone had a shot at perfection.
~ Steven Kotler
Given the costs of information, the perfect can be the enemy of good.
~ Steven Pinker
Given the costs of information, the perfect can be the enemy of the good.
~ Steven Pinker
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.
~ Zac Posen
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
~ Louise Erdrich
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
~ Djuna Barnes
All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
~ Samuel Richardson
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
~ John Steinbeck
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
~ William Shakespeare
Love is rarely flawless," Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.
~ Richelle Mead
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I am so hip even my errors are correct
~ Nikki Giovanni
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
~ Sidney Poitier
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.
~ Marion Jones
It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory through all the ages. Amen.
~ John Cassian
The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.
~ Rumi
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.
~ Saoirse Ronan