Perfect Quotes

• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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• Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Imperfection, Naturalism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

  Randy Pausch

  Engineering, Limited Resources, Solutions

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

  Anton Chekhov

  Technology, Two, People

  "Lights". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1888.

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• If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Looks, Ifs

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Moving, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I may not be perfect, but i'm always me

  Selena Gomez

  Breakup, May Not Be Perfect, Sad Break Up Love

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• In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

  Alice Walker

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Writers Block, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from May 05, 2014

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• I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Imperfect Things, Interesting

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Eye

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

  Grace Jones

  People, Might, Faults

  "Grace Jones: 'God I'm scary. I'm scaring myself'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

  Thomas de Quincey

  May, States, Ideals

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.22

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• When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.

  Tim Heidecker

  People, Inspired

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was thet a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the blade.The line grow into a long, Fat bubbel, A lush crimson bubbel that got bigger and bigger. I watch from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. when it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.

  Patricia McCormick

  Blood, Long, Waiting

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