Quotes About Perfection

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.

You are perfect, whole and complete. You needn't add anything to yourself to experience your true power.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

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

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

We are only syllables of the perfect Word.