Perfection Quotes

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

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

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

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.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.