Perfection Quotes - Page 6

• Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

  Jerry Moran

  Excellence, Ends, Process

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• How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Merchant Of Venice, Praise, Timeliness

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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• Perfection doesn't exist.

  Andres Iniesta

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

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• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Passion, Persistence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.100, Criss Jami

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• I do think imperfection's underrated.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Imperfection, Underrated

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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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  Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Courage, Men, Perfect

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• Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

  Rene Angelil

  Life, Artist, Perfect

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• Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

  Henry Fuseli

  Mediocrity, Pursuit, Pursuit Of Perfection

  Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.111

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• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Children, Perfect, Wife

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• He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

  Charles Lamb

  Mixtures, Matter, Pounds

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.48

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• This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

  Adam Clarke

  Jesus, Men, Creating

  Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.301

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• Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Order, Perfect, Horror

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• Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

  Chris Evert

  Should, Feels, Loses

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• There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

  Charles Buck

  Law, Degrees, Saint

  Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

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• In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

  Edward Bach

  Teaching, Civilization, Personality

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Lakes, Perfect, Tree

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.272, UPNE

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• Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

  Georges Braque

  Perfect, Mind, Certitude

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

  Stendhal

  Mind, Events, Action

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 1), 1822.

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• for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!

  Paul Gauguin

  Blue, Mountain, Sake

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• I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.

  Claude Monet

  Perfect, Painting, Enough

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Development, Symptoms, Mankind

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• And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Laughing, Joy

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.154, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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