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Quotes About Perfection

When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.
~ Anushka Shetty
Gamers are some of the toughest people to please. They have extreme requirements. They want everything.
~ Lisa Su
One tournament win doesn't make you perfect.
~ P. V. Sindhu
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
~ Samuel Johnson
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
~ James Schuyler
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
~ Maurice Ravel
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
~ William Ames
There's something amazing about 'Fawlty Towers' and 'The Office' only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don't need to do more than two or three.
~ Johnny Flynn
I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'
~ Lee Unkrich
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
~ Andres Segovia
But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
~ Dan Wheldon
Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'
~ Dimebag Darrell
I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
~ Labrinth
When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
~ Gordon Ramsay
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
~ Henry James
Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
~ Joe Elliott
I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.
~ Sarah Dessen
The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.
~ Nick Kroll
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
~ Samuel Johnson
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
~ Richard Bach
I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.
~ Spalding Gray
Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.
~ Roman Payne
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe