Perfection Quotes

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. (Aristotle)
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seemin my opinionto characterize our age. View quote
Albert Einstein
Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. View quote
Émile Zola
Perfection itself is imperfection. View quote
Vladimir Horowitz
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? View quote
Richard Brautigan
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. View quote
Martha Graham
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. View quote
Pierre Corneille
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. (Michael Fox)
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. View quote
Rita Levi-Montalcini
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. View quote
Edward Coke
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. View quote
C. Northcote Parkinson
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. View quote
William Faulkner
Perfection is the child of time... View quote
Joseph Hall
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. (Ann Landers)
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. View quote
Vince Lombardi
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. View quote
Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. View quote
Michelangelo
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. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra