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Quotes About Perfection

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
~ Dennis Prager
consequences. It brings death instead of life and perfection. It is sin, the breaking of the law that prevents men and women from becoming what they were meant to be. It is sin that removes them from a life with God. 'This fact is obvious in every aspect of our lives
~ Dennis Prince
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
~ Denzel Washington
A Beautiful and Perfect thing is neither Beautiful nor Perfect at its outset. Beauty & Perfection are attained with enormous Efforts and extraordinary Endurance over time. Only after withstanding tremondous pressure and scorching heat for countless years, a Coal is able to transform into a beautiful sparkling Diamond. Always strive to be that dazzling Diamond, and never settle for anything less in Life.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Une belle et parfaite est chose ni beau ni parfaite à son début. La beauté et la perfection sont atteints d'énormes efforts et l'endurance extraordinaire au fil du temps. Qu'après résister à la pression et la chaleur torride tremondous depuis d'innombrables années, un charbon peut se transformer en un beau diamant éblouissant. Efforcer d'être que le diamant, et de ne jamais se contenter de moins dans la vie.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Stephanie: I wouldn't mind a sister either Tanith: Any chance of that happening? Stephanie: I can't see what would be in it for my parents. I mean, they have the perfect daughter already - What more could they want?
~ Derek Landy
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
~ Aristotle
The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
~ Arthur Davison Ficke
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition
~ Robert C. Solomon
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
~ Margaret Halsey
The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.
~ Henry Ware, Jr.
Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
Stamp your performance with excellence.
~ Sherman Morris
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.
~ Hilary of Poitiers
I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.
~ Conor McGregor
But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
~ Emily Giffin
Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
~ Fred Brooks
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
~ Janet Suzman
Whatever you do, do it well.
~ Walt Disney
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
~ Giorgio Armani
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
~ Billie Joe Armstrong