Quotes About Perfection

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.

In art, the best is good enough.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

If you aren't really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

The best is good enough for me.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does.

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.