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Quotes About Perfection

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~ Ann Landers
My heart is perfect because...you are inside. My love for you is perfect because...you are mine.
~ Unknown
Being a good person is like a being a goal keeper. No matter how many goals we save, People will remember only the one that you missed.
~ Unknown
The greatest thing she'd learned over the years is that there's no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.
~ Unknown
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
~ William Somerset Maugham
Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.
~ Teri Hatcher
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
~ William Goldman
Death preserves an ideal.
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.
~ Amie Kaufman
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
~ Jan Tschichold
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
~ William Morris
It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.
~ James Victore
The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.
~ Marty Neumeier
A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.
~ Jonathan Ive
Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.
~ Jared Spool
It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format
~ Donald A. Norman
I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.
~ James Nares
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
~ Francisco Costa
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
~ Jacque Fresco
I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.
~ Frank Stallone
The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
~ Fritz Zwicky
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
~ Maimonides