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I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

If God is not unchanging, then the whole basis of our faith begins to fall apart, and our understanding of the universe begins to unravel. This is because our faith and hope and knowledge all ultimately depend on a person who is infinitely worthy of trust - because he is absolutely and eternally unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises.

I fight for perfection

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.