Quotes About Perfection

La cualidad esencial para el liderazgo no es la perfección, sino la credibilidad.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" EDWARD BERESFORD TODD

She thought of Dr Kellet and Pindar. Become such as you are, having learned what that is. She knew what that was now. She was Ursula Beresford Todd and she was a witness. She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula thought. And the practice of it makes it perfect.

dystopia, a reliably clean, well-lighted place.

common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.

Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin or too young, truly.

When I have all of Manhattan to choose from I tend to dither, to hold out for perfection—but as any poet can testify, limits encourage both inspiration and decisiveness.

Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

or there, since few perfect examples

In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God.

He asked himself what was so striking about her, and realized immediately that everything was in harmony, like the parts of a beautiful church. Her mouth, her chin, her cheekbones, and her forehead were just as he would have drawn them if he had been God creating a woman. She

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

Don't wait for a perfect person to love. Love a person and make him or her perfect with your power of love.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.