If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of… — J. Merridew Copy Share Image
“There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature… — Michael J Cohen Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
He created the flavors! He created the colors. He created it all, and he did it all out of the overflow of… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
“You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look… — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
“When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good… — Dawn Gluskin Copy Share Image
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to say I'm the smartest fighter, but I'm saying that, in this sport, you have to aim for perfection. — Dan Hooker Copy Share Image
There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him.… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to… — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“But imperfection is where we thrive. In the dark alleyways of society where we first met. I take her face in my… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great,… — Masami Saionji Copy Share Image
The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
You can tell when someone on TV who's supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit… — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
