Quotes About Perfection

You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.

Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

Good enough never is

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

Do it at your best or Don't do it at all.

You take the opportunities given to you. If we always waited for perfection, we'd miss out on so much. Don't you think?

Create always: As God has seen fit in His perfection to give you such abilities, work and share of your gifts.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

If you want to receive eternal life, keep the commandments" (Matthew 19:17). If you want to know the truth, believe in me. If you want to be perfect, sell all that you have. If you want to be my disciple, deny yourself. If you want to possess the blessed life, give up the life you now have. If you want to be exalted in heaven, humble yourself in this world. If you want to reign with me, bear the cross with me, for only the servants of the cross find the blessed life and true light.

O, heart! How long will you search for perfection in schools? How long will you try to perfect philosophy, geometry and all its rules? Every thought which is no remembrance of God is an evil inspiration, Be modest before God! How long these evil thoughts? (Leave them to fools!)

She is vaguely satisfied; in fact she is on the cusp of complete satisfaction, she teeters there, undecided. To give into complete satisfaction is to allow that it can disappear as quickly as it arrived. Once you feel it, you will want it forever. And you cannot have it forever. Because life is not perfect.

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.

How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois

The rose: though its petals are easily bruised, it blooms with exuberance. What power the rose possesses; the merest hint of a blossom conjures the deepest memory. At dawn, roses must be picked quickly, for they lose half their essence—the perfumer's treasure—by the high sun of noon. —DB

She saw every relationship as a pair of intersecting circles. The more they intersected, it would seem at first glance, the better the relationship; but this is not so. Beyond a certain point the law of diminishing returns sets in, and there aren't enough private resources left on either side to enrich the life that is shared. Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle.

I'm pretty sure the perfect man has already been built. She's called 'woman

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as many disappointments as there were before.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist. It's perfect in its existence. The only way it could be imperfect would be to NOT exist.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.