Quotes About Perfection

In high art and pure science detail is everything.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Now the essence of anything is abstract. It is never found. It is never reached. Yet if you search for the essence of perfection, you become more perfect. Search for the essence of success and you become more successful. Search for the essence of achievement and you achieve more.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

And we are introduced to Goodness every day, Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults; He has a name like Billy and is almost perfect, But wears a stammer like a decoration.

He had to be what He was (perfect) to do what He did (redeem). Only by virtue of His own sinlessness could Christ die vicariously for those whose sin His life had condemned morally. God has done what the law could not do! He

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

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

In my eye, men appear at their most powerful when they strain to reach that momentary perfection. Every muscle and sinew is taut, and for them there is nothing else except their bodies and the sensations. Fighting in concert, side by side, it is as if they storm the gates of Heaven demanding entry.

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

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

You know, when you finish the day, and you finish the scene, you don't get a chance to go back to it. So you wanna make sure that everything is left on the floor.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

Don't think for a moment that you've gotta be perfect to be paid.

If there is no one who is perfect, So there is no one better than you

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.