Quotes About Perfection

The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it.

Practice makes man perfect but CONFIDENCE makes PRACTICE PERFECT....

To seek perfection is to be cursed to find fault in the perfectly adequate, enjoyable, or even just plain good.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well. We demonstrated this emphasis on details, and saw it pay off, in our approach to hamburger patties.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

Given that self-improving strong AI cannot be recalled, Yudkowsky points out that we need to "get it right the first time," and that its initial design must have "zero nonrecoverable errors."45

The final mark of a saint is not perfection, but lived virtue. It is the striving for holiness throughout the arc of a life that makes a saint.

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, which he may use for the worst ends.

If I put cameras on you every day, you're gonna be emotional and nothing will be perfect. You have to allow people to be people.

Everybody wants to fall in love with the perfect candidate.

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

I am trying to be a lot more careful - and to not miss easy balls.

I think the dance world is really hard, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to look a certain way, and so that was a battle that I had to figure out for myself.

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

You can't be a superhero or super mom.

Playing a superhero isn't interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!

Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Superman' was created at a time when we needed some idealistic, perfect person to aspire to, which is why he is so flawless.