Quotes for Perfection

That concerns me, that we're reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.

Lorrie Morgan

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

Mark Helprin

Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.

Alysia Reiner

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Hamish Bowles

Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives.

Mike Yaconelli

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Douglas Horton

The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

H. P. Lovecraft

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Antonio Tabucchi

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

Laurie Simmons

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.

Isabella Bird

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

Ciara

There's the saying that perfect is the enemy of great, because if you strive for perfection you'll maybe never ship. There's a point that's good enough. But I do think that there's so much competition out there that if you don't hit the quality bar, the product will just fail.

Michael Morhaime

I found my first picture of Amanda Lepore online in fashion magazines. It was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen in my life. I thought nothing could trump the perfection of that photograph.

Sharon Needles

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Billy Childish

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

Nia Peeples

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

Gelsey Kirkland

Even if I've had the best game possible, nothing is ever perfect. I'm still looking for perfection - I know that's not real, but it keeps me pushing for more.

Ollie Watkins

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

Ree Drummond

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.

Benjamin Haydon