Quotes About Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exup

God is the only properly functioning community in the universe

the early Americans who spoke of "eternal vigilance" would have thought so. The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection

The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection. We

The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.

The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection. We certainly

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year - when the masters do it, it's like, 'Okay, I guess, go for it' - but when people aren't at the top of the top level, bits don't get to cook long enough.

I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.

Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.

Once in a while I'll order an omelet, 'cause I'm not very good at making omelets.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led Individualism entirely astray.  It has made gain not growth its aim.  So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.