Quotes About Perfection

A great pair of tweezers should feel like they are vibrating as if they have a spring. If the tweezers don't do that, they won't work well at all.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

We had terrible trouble finding a Buttercup because she had to be so beautiful. We had all kinds of pretty girls come in, but they weren't this staggering thing.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed female characters. We're held to a perfect standard, but every woman is flawed.

When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose photography because I see photography as an applied science. There is an artistic element also in it. If you perfect your scientific element, you can attain certain quality.

I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.

The most difficult thing is to make sure the standards remain high in each restaurant.

I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman).

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.