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Quotes About Perfection

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
~ Milo Ventimiglia
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
~ William Butler Yeats
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
~ John Suckling
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.
~ Thomas Reid
We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
~ C. S. Lewis
God never made his work for man to mend.
~ John Dryden
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
~ Michael Korda
Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
~ Robert Fulghum
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
~ Dorothy Hamill
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Perfect is the enemy of good.
~ Voltaire
He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.
~ Emeli Sande
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
~ Gay Talese
Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
~ Georges Braque
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
~ Henri Matisse
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I just want things to work properly.
~ James Dyson
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
~ John Cage
I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.
~ Carmen Electra
I don't know about you, but I've never been able to go into a store and buy a pair of jeans off the rack that fit perfectly.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.
~ Ryan Phillippe
The Wyatt Family was a very special thing. The 3 of us came together at a perfect time. It was a perfect storm, and that rivalry with The Shield in 2014-2015 was a magical time.
~ Luke Harper
From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.
~ Brian Azzarello