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Quotes About Perfection

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.
~ Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
No one will ever know how perfect you are to me.love u zakiya
~ ZAKIYA AND MAJID
You can do no wrong in my eyes. You are perfect!Love u januaaa
~ ZAKIYA AND MAJID
Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect
~ Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
Her beauty is laced in her strength and interwoven through her flaws. She embodies perfection.
~ Kierra C.T. Banks
I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.
~ Liza M. Wiemer, Hello?
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
~ Jill Churchill
...because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes.
~ Melissa Hill, The Guest List
Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.
~ David W. Earle
It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying.
~ Dominic Riccitello
If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?
~ Marcus Sedgwick
DOING A THING WELL NEVER IS TROUBLE!
~ Napoleon Hill
Michelangelo was asked by the pope about the secret of his genius, particularly how he carved the statue of David, largely considered the masterpiece of all masterpieces. His answer was: "It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beauty is enhanced by unashamed irregularities; magnificence by a façade of blunder
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mother Nature is not perfect, but has so far proven smarter than humans, certainly much smarter than biologists. So my approach is to combine evidence-based research (stripped of biological theory), with an a priori that Mother Nature has more authority than anyone.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Proclus was known to repeat the metaphor that statues are carved by subtraction.. Michelangelo was asked how he carved the statue of David, his answer as: It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have. Perhaps even more. For most scientists are hard-headed, otherwise they would not derive the patience and energy to perform the Herculean tasks asked of them, like spending eighteen hours a day perfecting their doctoral thesis.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man's finest workmanship, the closer you observe it, the more imperfections it shows; as in a piece of polished steel a microscope will discover a rough surface. Whereas, what may look coarse and rough in Nature's workmanship will show an infinitely minute perfection, the closer you look into it. The reason of the minute superiority of Nature's work over man's is, that the former works from the innermost germ, while the latter works merely superficially.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A trait si-a iubit si asta face si acum! In trandafirul asta de-o frumusete perfecta nu mai e nici o petala nedeschisa, nici o picatura de roua pe care n-au vazut-o razele soarelui.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.
~ Neal Gabler