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I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.
mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.
I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.
Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?
I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.
Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.