Famous Quotes & Sayings

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Angela Bettis

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.

Anais Nin

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

Anais Nin

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Anais Nin

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

Andrew Vachss

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

Andres Iniesta

Perfection doesn't exist.

Chuck Palahniuk

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

Christopher Walken

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.

Christopher Paolini

It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection.

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

Donald Kennedy

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Amy Adams

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Ciara

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

Alfred de Musset

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Eddie Vedder

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Ed Parker

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

Earl Nightingale

Excellence always sells.

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Diane Kruger

The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Dan Millman

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

Dave Brubeck

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

John Henry Newman

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Paul Simon

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Kevin Flynn

The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time

Ken Goldberg

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Ne-Yo

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

Mstislav Rostropovich

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.