Quotes About Perfection

It was his first understanding that physical attraction, even sexual desire, was stimulated by more than the perfection of a body, or the beauty of a face.

What do they expect of a one-eyed, one-armed artist-- and the son of Garp? No flaws?

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.

My excellence confused them

And you know what genius is, Mose? It's endless attention to detail.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

This, after all, was Switzerland, where everything works; Switzerland, where trains run like clocks, and clocks run like watches, and watches are synchronous with the pulse of the universe; Switzerland

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.