Quotes About Perfection

Practice makes perfect," is misleading. When practicing, many people do the behavior by rote—without thinking about what they're doing. But this kind of practice does not make perfect. Quite the opposite. Instead of leading to perfection, rote practice tends to make permanent the current less-than-desirable level of ability.

I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

In the radiance and the silence, she ran on the vast expanse of hard, smooth sand, beside herself with joy. Ah, when you only have a holiday once in a while, what a happiness it is! Each golden minute had to be held and perfected before it was let go.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

And just like with the cell phone, the replica is not only perfect, it even maintains the electron patterns of old texts, emails, and so on. Or, in the case of a man, the replica has every last neuronal pathway and memory intact. Along with whatever ineffable quality you call the spark of life.

How are you making utopia sound like Hell on Earth?

Only the best!

Et de m'avoir mise face à cette réalité : personne n'est totalement équilibré, personne n'a de certitudes absolues. Il n'existe pas de vie parfaite.

T. S. Eliot memorably described it, an effort at 'dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good'.

The dreams of communism and socialism were the sincerest attempts of their day to come up with and put into practice a theory of everything. The endless writings and pamphlets and evangelism in every country of Europe were one more attempt to dream a meaningful dream, capable of solving everything and addressing the problems of everyone. It was, as T. S. Eliot memorably described it, an effort at 'dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good'.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

Don't show your flaws.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

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

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.