Perfection Quotes - page 9

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)
In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy. View quote
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection. View quote
Jennifer Egan
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. View quote
John Piper
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. View quote
George Zebrowski
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. View quote
Elihu Root
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. View quote
Lissa Rankin
The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives. View quote
Louise Penny
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. View quote
Luis Figo
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world. (Joyce Meyer)
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. View quote
Margaret George
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain. View quote
Celine Dion
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. View quote
Agnes Martin
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it. View quote
Atul Gawande
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. View quote
Paul von Hindenburg
The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain. View quote
Padre Pio
There is no greater bore than perfection. View quote
Richard Connell
Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws. View quote
Robert Kirkman
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. View quote
Agnetha Faltskog
I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress. (Angela Bettis)
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. View quote
Armstrong Williams
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. View quote
Adam Clarke
I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone. View quote
Adrienne Bailon
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. View quote
Benjamin Haydon