Quotes About Perfection

Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half of a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Love isn't about having someone who's perfect. It's about having someone who's perfect for you.

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

Producing the prefect concrete has become a kind of philosopher's stone of the late 20th century.

God is able to write straight with a crooked pencil and to achieve his perfect ends through the use of less than perfect instruments, without himself being tainted or hampered by their imperfection. Indeed,

He (Knox) handles the doctrines of election and justification as causes for bright joy in believers. 'Your imperfections shall have no power to damn you,' he writes to Mrs. Bowes, 'for Christ's perfection is reputed to be yours by faith, which you have in his blood.' 'God has received already at the hands of His only Son all that is due for our sins, and so cannot his justice require or crave any more of us, other satisfaction or recompense for our sins.

They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a great literary character. Only in accidents of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage." (Rule of Four, 54-55)

The fourth elf was younger than the others. This showed in the perfection of her skin, the agility and speed of her movements, and in the brightness of her dress. Her long silk garment was yellow and gold and green, and she wore a blue silk choker with a trailing silver scarf at her neck matching another at her waist. There was fire in her dark eyes which added to her overpowering beauty.

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Es el orfebre quien puede evaluar el oro.

La visión de Dios en la mujer es la más perfecta de todas." Ibn el Arabi

Sufi says: 'The moth, if it could think, might well believe that the candle flame is desirable because it seems to represent perfection. The flame is the product of the wax, the wick and the spark which kindles. Is the human moth seeking the flame or the spark itself? Observe the moth. His destiny, to be destroyed by the flame, is visible to you and hidden to him' (Tongue of the Dumb, quoting Paiseem).

The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.

There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

Never Walk Past a Mistake

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Call humanity what it is; an imperfection amongst perfection.

The best and worst of writing is that it could always be better.