Quotes About Perfection

If raising healthy children involves telling the truth about the family narrative, that was something I could do. It would take some practice and a whole lot of courage, but I could do it. I felt a sense of relief. If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

Aren't you ashamed that you pay all of your attention to acquiring as much money as you can, without giving any thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?

As a musician, he was as close to perfection as a man could come. It was worth putting up with the man to be able to work with the musician.

Does such a thing as the fatal flaw, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Henry's a perfectionist, I mean, really-really kind of inhuman — very brilliant, very erratic and enigmatic. He's a stiff, cold person, Machiavellian, ascetic and he's made himself what he is by sheer strength of will. His aspiration is to be this Platonic creature of pure rationality and that's why he's attracted to the Classics, and particularly to the Greeks — all those high, cold ideas of beauty and perfection.

They really knew how to work this edge, the Dutch painters?ripeness sliding into rot. The fruit's perfect but it won't last, it's about to go. And see here especially," she said, reaching over my shoulder to trace the air with her finger, "this passage?the butterfly." The underwing was so powdery an delicate it looked as if the color would smear if she touched it. "How beautiful he plays it. Stillness with a tremble of movement.

Success is in the details.

Conocer la perfección inconmensurable de Dios y nuestra inmensa imperfección, ver nuestras propias faltas e inconmensurable corrupción, es el A-B-C de una fe salvadora.

In justification, our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification, our own works are of great importance, and God instructs us to fight, watch, pray, strive, try, and work. Justification is a finished and complete work, and a person is perfectly justified the moment he believes. Sanctification is an imperfect work, comparatively, and will never be perfected until we reach heaven.

Pero todavía no he visto que haya algún pasaje en las Escrituras que enseñe que puede lograrse una perfección literal, una liberación completa y absoluta del pecado, ni en los pensamientos, ni palabras ni hechos, ni tampoco que ningún hijo de Adán lo haya logrado en este mundo.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.' Logan Pearsall Smith.

La infatigable búsqueda de una perfección inalcanzable, así se trate sólo de aporrear un viejo piano, es lo que por sí mismo da sentido a nuestra vida en esta vana estrella.» Logan Pearsall Smith.

Feel free to aim for perfection. I like that in a commander and much prefer it to superiors who aim for perfection in their subordinates.

Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

I know I'm not perfect, but I didn't think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another.

When one sees herself and her kind as the standard of perfection against which all else is measured, it is impossible to have perspective.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

But it wasn't even close to perfect if you can't trust it to stand up on its own merit. Not if you have to try and control it and play games to try and shape it to your will. This doesn't save it, it destroys it. And it certainly does not protect or save you.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.

Define steps small enough that teams can see and show their progress. Don't get bogged down trying to create the perfect system with a perfect set of measurements. Nothing will ever be perfect for everyone. Agreeing on something reasonable and moving forward is important when the alternative is being paralyzed. Be flexible where it makes sense to be, but hold the line where you shouldn't bend.