Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Soros

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

George Soros

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Jewel

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Jerry Moran

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

Jeff Bridges

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

Georges Braque

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

George Will

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

Jeremy Bentham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Jennifer Egan

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Jennifer Egan

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;

Hugh Prather

Perfectionism is slow death.

Fernando Pessoa

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Francis Bacon

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Jerry Spinelli

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

Jennifer Lopez

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Billy Graham

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

Orson Scott Card

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Nicolas Malebranche

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

Nicolas Chamfort

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Nicolas Cage

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Nick Faldo

The course is perfection and it asks perfection.

Oscar Wilde

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

Liz Phair

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Margaret Oliphant

All perfection is melancholy.

Michael Jackson

A perfectionist has to take his time,

Michael Cunningham

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Mason Cooley

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

Michael Gove

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Mia Wasikowska

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

Mencius

All things are complete within ourselves.