Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
Richard J. Daley
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
Shana Alexander
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.
John Eliot, Ph.D.
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
Done is better than perfect.
Scott Allen
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.
John Eliot, Ph.D.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
"The Lesson": Yes, my fretting, Frowning child, I could cross The room to you More easily. But I've already Learned to walk, So I make you Come to me. Let go now— There! You see? Oh, remember This simple lesson, Child, And when In later years You cry out With tight fists And tear.
Carol Lynn Pearson
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Anne Lamott
Perfectionism is slow death.
Hugh Prather
Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.
White Eagle
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Felltham
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
Dr. David M. Burns
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
William Shakespeare
But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Edmund Burke
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo da Vinci
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.
Salvador Dali
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham
Once you're in that mindset, when you're recording in a house as opposed to a clinical environment of a studio, you get beyond that, and you try to capture a performance more than sonic perfection, which is what we were interested in.
Vivian Campbell
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George F. Will
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.
Dr. David M. Burns
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
Some things work, and some things don't. That's why we continually strive for perfection, looking to be even better every day.
Lance Carter
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Louis Auchincloss
Women have to be honed to perfection. Guys can have faults.
Beverly Ulbrich
We don't push perfection on this squad. We push teamwork and unity.
Tammera Lawson
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James Stephens
Mr. Underwood was very prissy, and he inspected every brick. If it wasn't to his perfection, then it went to the junk pile.
Sarah Reed
Love is the bond of perfection.
John Winthrop
The only chance we have [tonight] is if we execute to perfection. They're more mature and stronger, but I believe any game is a winnable game.
Jason Montgomery
Jerry always told me that he never played the perfect game. In his mind, that's a lofty deal. A lot of people would take a few of his games as perfection.
Ronnie Lott
Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others.
Kathleen Norris
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
Beatrice Potter Webb
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Marie is an incredibly dynamic player. She's very hard on herself, she works hard for perfection and she's really an explosive player. I've had her since I was coaching JV and she's really matured into a fine athlete.
Michelle Lafrancis
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Henry Fuseli
(Jones) has probably had the best fall. He hasn't missed a sprint. He's been as close to perfection as a player can be in the conditioning program.
Robert Mccullum
That was the play coach drew up and we ran it to perfection as a team. Everybody did their part.
Jasmine Stohr
I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.
John Grant
The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.
Yasutani Roshi
[Wisdom is] the science of happiness or of the means of attaining the lasting contentment which consists in the continual achievement of a greater perfection or at least in variations of the same degree of perfection.
G. Wilhelm Leibniz
Our defense did a good job of forcing fumbles. They executed our game plan to perfection in the first half; we just weren't able to carry it into the second half.
Todd Sconce
It's the event everybody can relate to. It's got beauty, it's got talent and it's got athletic perfection of the most extraordinary level.
Dick Button
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson
There's no such thing as perfection. Mistakes happen. Officials are so hard on themselves. When they make a mistake, nobody feels worse than they do.
Jerry Markbreit
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
Alain Ducasse
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens
We bordered on perfection out there tonight. The tie is not over yet, but we've taken a magnificent step toward the final.
Victor Munoz
They're probably the best offensive team we've faced in this league. They run their system and they run it to perfection. ... They're proving they're going to be a very strong addition to this conference.
Faith Mimnaugh
Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.
Hugh Laurie
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon
He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.
Judith Guest
It's pretty subjective, we're judged. There are many different things that are judged. From beginning to end, it's riddled with different things. It's very hard to achieve perfection. It's pretty involved. It's a lot harder than most people think.
Caitlin Shipe
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Bishop Robert South
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
William Law
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing
The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's all about perfection, isn't it?
Keira Knightley
He pushed me and pushed us ... to seek perfection. If you miss perfection, you end up with greatness, and he could handle that, but nothing less.
Joe Montana
The goal of jujitsu is to develop perfection of character.
Jose Ortiz
Perfection is the enemy of the good.
Gustave Flaubert
We rely on our defense to slow teams down, and it worked to perfection. Then, it's just a matter of getting the ball in the hoop.
Major Corley
Without Mrs. (Ellen) Herbert's persistent encouragement and prodding, I don't believe I could have ever achieved what I did in that competition. Mrs. Herbert guides the journey not of perfection but of refinement.
Jennifer Martinez
We should not expect perfection, or we'll be disappointed.
Dr. William Schaffner
Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
They executed the game plan to perfection. They were hungry. They wanted to win. They defended and rebounded better. It's just amazing to see that we beat the defending national champions.
Brenda Frese
While [competition] is a good thing to a certain extent, as it makes each of us strive for perfection, it can also wear a person down.
Kathleen Schaben
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
Giordano Bruno
There's always things to work on, you have to work to perfection.
Pete Asadourian
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Saint Augustine
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
William Bliss Carman
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
Ludwig Bemelmans
It's hard to please coach Coop. He played for coaches like Pat Riley, coaches who expect perfection. So he expects perfection. So if you come out and barely win, it's not good enough.
Tony Bland
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Michelle Burford
We are striving for perfection, and that's our goal. In our business -- the luxury business -- if you are not 100 percent satisfied, we do not deserve your money.
Jan Chovanec
I don't care if you're good or not. You don't always have a corner on perfection. And you need people to challenge what you're suggesting.
Dick Murphy
I'm pleased with how far we've come. I'm not happy with where we are. I think we need to get better. As a coach, you're never completely happy. You want that perfection. You know you're probably not going to get it, but you want it. And I want it out of our guys.
Charlie Coe
It was a look of perfection — just like her style.
Peggy Fleming
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
Mark Crispin Miller
Big bangs don't make this, ... That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical. You and I can't make livers. Things banging don't make livers. This is mystical stuff. This is magic. This is perfection.
Ted Nugent
We were ready for it but they still dominated the game with their fast break. They executed to perfection. As quick as my kids are they were running by us on the break.
Meg Cullinan
I can't say enough about my girls. One of my starters (Morgan Monroe) wasn't here tonight and that made it difficult, but the other girls stepped up. They executed our game plan, just about to perfection.
Robert Flowers
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia -- I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Nellie Melba
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
Rather than accept a 90 percent solution, they keep trying for some kind of perfection that just never occurs. The Corps of Engineers built the Panama Canal in about 10 years, and we can't even do this in 20.
Terry Rice
We had a great defensive game and we worked our offense to perfection. There was a great team effort out there Monday and I was thrilled.
Christy Nall
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
Neil Diamond
It's hard to improve upon perfection.
Robert W. Burke
We were trying to be too precise, too perfect. Close finals football is not about perfection.
Neil Craig
With Dan in his final season with the Wildcats (before joining the University of Michigan's coaching staff), I expect nothing but perfection from them.
Vicki Kobel
He was the picture of perfection. We just knew he'd make a perfect trainer for some of our horses.
Gretchen Jackson
Overall, it was a huge success for me. It was a huge honor for me to be a two-time Olympian and have the accomplishments that I've been able to have in skiing. But certainly there was an element of disappointment. ... I expect perfection out of myself, and I didn't ski a perfect run. I was disappointed in that, but I did ski well, and I had a great time.
Jeremy Bloom
Batting fourth comes with some expectations. I'm a perfectionist, I expect perfection out of myself and when it doesn't happen, I get frustrated with it.
Troy Glaus
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
Emile Zola
Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
He did a great job of managing the game and executing the offense. We're always looking for perfection, but he played awfully well once again.
Joe Tiller
Well, we're not claiming Hollywood perfection yet.
Elizabeth Sanjenis
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.
Edsger Dijkstra
I absolutely enjoyed playing for him. He demands perfection, as all good coaches do.
Eric Osmundson
As for my working habits, I like the idea of perfection. If a thing is not right it is done over and over again.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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