Perfection Quotes

Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes Ray White

~ Ray White

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

~ Primo Levi

I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.” I looked up. “Why? Because of my near godlike perfection?

~ J. Lynn

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

~ Maria Tallchief

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. The nights belong to us. Everything we do is secret. Nothing we do will ever be understood; we will be feared and kept well away from. ..It’s you and me in this room, on this floor. Beyond life, beyond morality. We are gleaming animals painted in moonlit sweat glow. Our eyes turn to jewels and everything we do is an example of spontaneous perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. History atomizes and negates itself with our every shared breath. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

~ Henry Rollins

Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.

~ David Kelley

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.

~ V.c. Andrews

But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.

~ Jael Mchenry

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

~ Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

~ Edith Pargeter

You're after perfection,'Matt said.'Is that so awful?''No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.

~ Tim Relf

The thing of it is, we don’t have to be perfect or be the best. We just need to do the best with what God gives us and how life treats us.

~ J.w. Lord

No one's book is perfect.

~ Sara Sheridan

Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul.Oh?Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid.And treacherous and dangerous?You know, Niko, I begin to suspect that you are a man of prose. It is a blemish on you.No one's perfect.Speak for yourself.

~ Trevanian

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving message-totalities and autonomous thing-signals when no morphologically intact figures are left - indeed, precisely then. The sense for perfection withdraws from the forms of nature - probably because nature itself is in the process of losing its ontological authority. The popularization of photography also increasingly devalues the standard views of things. As the first edition of the visible, nature comes into discredit. It can no longer assert its authority as the sender of binding messages - for reasons that ultimately come from its disenchantment through being scientifically explored and technically outdone. After this shift, 'being perfect' takes on an altered meaning: it means having something to say that is more meaningful than the chatter of conventional totalities. Now the torsos and their ilk have their turn: the hour of those forms that do not remind us of anything has come. Fragments, cripples and hybrids formulate something that cannot be conveyed by the common whole forms and happy integrities; intensity beats standard perfection.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

I am not perfect,my roots are not watered with perfection.

~ Nomthandazo Tsembeni

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.

~ Karl Weierstrass

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

~ Adam Smith

Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it’s elusive and may be an illusion.

~ R.l. Griffin

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

~ Émile Zola

Life is perfect as long as you didn't cheat.

~ Ayette Roa

The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.

~ Paula Heller Garland

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to establish whether or not it is the genuine gem or just masquerading as one under the glitter of big hitting or weight of runs.

~ Patrick Ferriday

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

~ Ben Fountain

Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

~ L.m. Montgomery

She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy.

~ Amanda Coplin

Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits?

~ Buffi Neal

Through pain and growth, I have come to appreciate -no, more than that-I've come to love my fence, even though it may be different than the neighbors'. The concept of perfection is not flawless or ripped from a magazine. It's happiness. Happiness with all itsmessiness and not-quite-thereness. It's knowing that life is short, and the moments we choose to fill our cup wiht should be purposeful and rich. That we should be present for life, that we should drink deeply. And that's perfection. And my dad and my mom and my family-my past, present, and future with Nella, what the world may view as broken or damaged-have taught me what true beauty really is.

~ Kelle Hampton

Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?

~ Ben Monopoli

Absolute perfection is insidious.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

I’ve watched you for a very long time now. And in this time, I’ve come to discover just as I first suspected. We are perfect for one another.

~ Paloma Beck

For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.

~ Sarah Ockler

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

~ Helena Bonham Carter

This boy was so far out of my league it was embarrassing. I found myself staring at him, trying to find some minute flaw that might justify dragging him back to my level. Finding nothing, I decided that having a dimple on only one cheek was practically a deformity.

~ G.j. Walker-Smith

Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best

~ Heraclitus