Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Perfection can be a fetish
Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.
We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
Style is the perfection of a point of view.
In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.
And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh. ' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
I think of every double-decker loop as another loop towards my death. And that is why I've always thought of the double-decker loop as - each loop as a continuous and individualized search for perfection.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.
My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.
