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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

Perfection's awesome... So I strive for it every day.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

Perfection is an impossible destination

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

Perfection is really boring!

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Perfection can be a fetish

Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.

Perfection is a moving target

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Progress is more important than perfection.