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Perfection Quotes

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 4. Victor Frankenstein.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask myself, ‘Why isn’t the world perfect?’ Then a voice comes to me that says, ‘We admit it…There are still a few kinks that need working out.’

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Charlie Brown.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

– Herman Hesse

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

– Gustave Flaubert

The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic – nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

– H. P. Lovecraft

Actually, I can’t imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

– Hugh Mackay

If you think you’ve already made it, that’s when you can fall short and go backwards. I’m constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

– Jason Derulo

Koons’s work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

– Jerry Saltz

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don’t pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

– John Ruskin

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don’t expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

– Josh Billings

Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.

– Julianne Moore

I don’t want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

– Irvine Welsh

Perfection would be something that you see in ‘Architectural Digest.’

– Jill Soloway

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

– James Cash Penney

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone – the iPhone’s native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in – and the screen is just far too small.

– John Battelle

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

– Jane Green

‘Secretariat’ was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It’s always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

– John Malkovich

Strive for perfection. Nobody’s going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

– Judith Jamison

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

– Jon Landau

We shouldn’t be intimidated by someone else’s idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.

– J. D. Salinger

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

– Jose Bergamin

I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn’t exist – life comes with bumps and grazes.

– Andrea McLean

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

– John Piper

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

– Joyce Meyer

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

– Armstrong Williams

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