Quotes About Perfection

If you're not aiming at perfection, you're not trying hard enough.

In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.

If there is no perfection of a work, be sure the perfection of a plan.

There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

No government is ever going to get it perfect. The job of policymakers is to continue seeking perfection and making it better and constantly reassessing to ensure that the students and the parents are getting the most out of the education system.

In the studio, you can redo things. In concert, you only have one shot at it, so you have to try to be as perfect as possible.

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

The biggest style icons to me are French girls. I think Bridgette Bardot is so sexy and Jane Birkin pulls off a blouse and t-shirt to perfection.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.

leave not a speck.that may cause a wreck...

You have a right to every good and perfect gift, because God said you are good and perfect. I challenge you to get to worthy.

The only way to live a perfect life is to not take risks, to just sit in a little box and never go after what you want or reach for your goals (because, God forbid, ya could try and ya could fail, and that sho' ain't perfect).

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.