Quotes About Perfection

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

There's little in life so disappointing as a sunken cake.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

I want every dish to be a ten.

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone's like, 'Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don't say anything wrong!' And it's just working out better for me just being me.

I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I think there is a lot of pressure on people to be perfect all the time, and so there is this fairytale image of everything, but at the end of the day we are just like other people.

Now that I look back, all the things that I was teased about, became game changers and my strengths. That's what we have to learn as mothers. We push our children so much to be perfect, but it's their imperfections that make them unique.

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Since I was little, I've watched Roger play on TV. To me, he plays almost perfect tennis. His technique is perfect. I also like him at the human level; he's a very good person on and off the court.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

Defect-free software does not exist.