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• Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

  Topics in Life, Perfection

• Imperfections define perfection.

  Colleen Hoover

  Topics in Perfection

• Perfection is overrated. Perfection is boring.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Topics in Perfection

• Perfection does not exist – only God is perfect.

  Carolina Herrera

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Perfect, Exist

• No one is perfect and perfectly holy but God alone.

  R. Alan Woods

  Topics in Perfection

• Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

  Megan Hart

  Topics in Perfection

• Jazz stands for freedom. It’s supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Freedom

• Often, when you’ve reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it’s hard to remember that.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Topics in Achievement, Perfection

  Tags in Yourself

• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Perfection

• A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Expect, Moment

• 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

  Topics in God, Perfection

  Tags in Person, Without

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Passion

• Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

  William Shawn

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Process

• Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

  James Stephens

  Topics in Death, Perfection

  Tags in Finality

• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in People

• Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

  River Phoenix

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Peace, Link

• Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Film

• Style is the perfection of a point of view.

  Richard Eberhart

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Style

• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  Bliss Carman

  Topics in Perfection, Success

  Tags in Lacking, Note, Rarely, Wholly, Passion

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

  Emile Zola

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Nuisances