Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
That concerns me, that we’re reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
Being a ballerina, you don’t ever want to show yourself less than perfect, ever. That’s what your goal is: 24/7 perfection.
Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It’s a constant, in our society.
I have been incredibly blessed with a mother who supports me 100 percent – she sees nothing but perfection in her daughter.
The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won’t stop me trying.
I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I’m not an advocate of destroying, ‘kroshat,’ and then selling like they do in Russia. That’s how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.
Every time you write a song, you’re looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You’re always looking for that extra missing piece.
A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Here’s the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We’ve had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven’t seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
It is imperfection – not perfection – that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
It’s not about perfection. What’s a perfect painting? What’s interesting about a perfect painting?
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.
I’m not trying to achieve perfection. I don’t like this forced control people have over work.
Usher is amazing. He’s perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
You can never get perfection. There have to be constant course corrections and there will be constant course corrections on Brexit-related stuff once we leave the E.U.
I don’t aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
I’m always in search for perfection. If it’s not perfect, I’m back to the drawing board.
I don’t love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn’t mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just… boring. Perfect is what’s natural or real; that is beauty.
I find little things that drive me sometimes, but again, I’m already a driven person, and just because I strive for perfection on a personal level and don’t really care what other people say or do. I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.
I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
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.
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
Every time I’ve seen Sheryl Crow perform, it’s like effortless perfection. She’s so relaxed onstage, but she’s really locked into the music and having fun. Vocally, I’ve always looked up to her.
People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!
I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It’s the same discipline you employ in dance – you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
