Quotes About Perfection

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

however, I couldn't pass up a Saint-Marcellin from La Mère Richard, a spark plug of a woman who's built a whole life on aging these small, puffy raw cow's milk cheeses from the Dauphiné region to perfection and who has a stand in the main market of Lyon.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,The last and greatest art—the art to blot.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; .... In wit, as nature, what effects our hearts Is not th'exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready Nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away!

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Did they always pass out after shifting back to human? It didn't seem very efficient. Or had he been hurt? Leaning to the side, she inspected the bronzed perfection spread over the quilt. her mouth went dry as she tried to concentrate on searching him for injuries. She'd never seen a man so magnificently...proportioned. A broad, chiseled chest. Powerful shoulders. Washboard abs. Long, muscular legs. And a huge... Yeah. Magnificently proportioned.

Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Perfection does not exist. To understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; the desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

La perfection n'existe pas ; la comprendre est le triomphe de l'intelligence humaine ; la désirer pour la posséder est la plus dangereuse des folies. P 29

Hakiki hayatta ebedi ve mutlak a?klar aramaya kalk??mak, ?ehir meydanlar?nda Venüs kadar güzel kad?nlar aramaya yahut da bülbüllerin Beethoven'?n senfonilerini çalmalar?n? istemeye müsavidir.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9 ESV).

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Some shots, for me, are a good shot even if it's forced. The way it might look to a person watching, they might look at it like, 'That's a tough shot.' But for me, it's not a tough decision. I'm committed to those shots, and I spend time working on them.