Quotes About Perfection

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

I have no notion of a perfect woman, as I feel if I fall in love, it can be with a wrong person also.

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

I am obsessed with people and how to make them look their best.

I wear very natural makeup, but it's made up out of five foundations to make that perfect skin, and my lipstick might be three different lipsticks mixed together, so it's a kind of obsession in a different way.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

When you have something that is perfect, that occupies a position and sector unrivaled by anyone else, that's one thing we do not want to tamper with.

El lenguaje siempre es una pluralidad, y esa te hace pensar a veces que el lenguaje es la expresión más perfecta de la razón y a la vez es la expresión más imperfecta de la razón, ya que toda palabra posee una significación que puede ser anulada por otra palabra. Lo que me propuse es ver cómo el lenguaje desemboca del silencio, de ese silencio significativo.

El siglo XX ha perfeccionado los odios religiosos al convertirlos en pasiones ideológicas.

se volvió hacia nosotros, que en ese momento estábamos de pie el uno junto al otro, y sonrió como si estuviera viendo una de esas inigualables maravillas creadas por Dios para doblegar el orgullo del ser humano y proclamar su estupidez, un enano perfecto o dos gemelos exactamente iguales.

KusursuzluÄŸu küçük ÅŸeyler oluÅŸturur; ama kusursuzluk küçük bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Nature hates all botched and half-finished work, and will pronounce her curse upon it.

Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. — Chesterfield.

An old sculptor said of his carvings, whose backs were to be out of all possible inspection, "But the gods will see. Every

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

An interesting side effect of the battle was that Ender emerged at the top of the soldier efficiency list. Since he hadn't fired a shot, he had a perfect record on shooting—no misses at all. And since he had never been eliminated or disabled, his percentage there was excellent. No one else came close. It made a lot of boys laugh, and others were angry, but on the prized efficiency list, Ender was now the leader.