Quotes About Perfection

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

Perfection can never be attained by work.

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

A man's perfection is his work.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

The perfect scenario is when you are living your dream, when you have found your gift and when you are working to bring it to perfection

The secret of success lies in the perfection of one's gift and working frantically towards God's given potential