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Quotes About Perfection

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
~ Wayne Dyer
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
~ Weisert
If you constantly compare this moment with some perfection that you imagined, you are fated to be forever disappointed. Adventure is the unforeseen, not the expected." Blithe
~ Wen Spencer
I sigh. I wonder if practicing in my head counts. I can easily picture myself doing a perfect routine. Somehow it comes out differently once gravity gets involved.
~ Wendy Mass
He wore tight red slacks and a white shirt. His body, I could see, was impeccably shaped.
~ Wendy Rathbone
It's easy to hate women and hate women's bodies when we don't do very much to fight back. We have to step into the skin we're in. Your body isn't perfect? Well, neither is mine. Neither is anyone's. It's time to redefine "perfect" or drop the expectation. It's time to feed ourselves with compassion instead of grief. Compassion instead of starvation. Compassion instead of food.
~ Wendy Shanker
YO SOY LA MAGNA VICTORIOSA PRESENCIA CONQUISTADORA, MANIFESTANDO AHORA LA PERFECCIÓN A TRAVÉS DE MI CUERPO FÍSICO, Y EL LOGRO VICTORIOSO EN MIS ASUNTOS DIARIOS, DE ACUERDO CON EL PLAN DIVINO", y "YO SOY
~ Werner Schroeder
Defect-free software does not exist.
~ Wietse Venema
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It is the deeply filtered and the wretched who deny this, who test themselves with exoteric perfection, who turn their branded melodias to simple outward gain. In contrast to the rotation of immensity, to the treble glare of inward cyclical rarity, such outward wit carries less than the power of negation.
~ Will Alexander
The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.
~ Daniel Kahneman
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
~ Daniel Libeskind
The body immediately confers perfection, that is, certainty with regard to the true nature of things . . . thanks to the contact with the power of the Self," says Abhinavagupta.
~ Daniel Odier
The thing about Laurel and Hardy movies that you can't get from the chopped-up versions on television is how beautiful they are. Things happen exactly at the moment they have to happen. They don't happen a second too soon or too late. You can even predict what's going to happen—and it does happen—and it surprises you anyway. It doesn't surprise you because it happened, but because it happened so perfectly.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
but a perfect home was as clear a sign of dysfunction as a slovenly one.
~ Danielle Girard
She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a completionist, not a perfectionist.
~ Danzy Senna
She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a
~ Danzy Senna
Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life--for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!
~ Dara Horn
Anyone claiming to be perfect at what they do is proof they don't know what the hell they're doing.
~ Darrell Urban Black
It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.
~ Darren Shan
And I am flawed but I am cleaning up so well.
~ Dashboard Confessional
Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel
~ Dava Sobel
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
~ Dave Barry
You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.
~ Dave Davies