Quotes About Perfection

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.

Gold, we think, is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury. But in its natural state, it's a raw element.

If you think beauty pageants are all about perfections, then I am sorry to say, it is not like that.

Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

I can eat any soup, but it just has to have a nice taste. It's like chocolate - if you eat a dessert at the end of the meal, you want the dessert to be perfect.

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect.

Perfection is a faux. It's a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn't us.

We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right.

Affirmation 4 us: I appreciate myself, and I am honored to be me because I am a perfect extension of God.

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you're just never quite good enough.

This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff)

Writing is a piece of cake. Editing is a slab of liver.