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• Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Topics in Perfection

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  Quintilian

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Perishes

• I forgive myself for not being perfect. I recognize we’re all not perfect. I am open to forgiving others. I value persistence insights and growth far more than perfection.

  Unknown

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Forgive, Growth

• Body confidence does not come from trying to achieve the ‘perfect’ body, it comes from embracing the one you’ve already got.

  Unknown

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Come

• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason – the law which is perfection of reason.

  Edward Coke

  Topics in Life, Perfection

  Tags in Law

• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Fashionable

• No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Stealth

• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Perfection

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

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Point, Achieved

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  Adam Jones

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Reaching, Thinking

• Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

  John Abercrombie

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Musicians, Glenn, Versions

• Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Failure, Perfection, Success, Work

  Tags in Learning, Loyalty, Persistence

• 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

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Standard, Teachings, Personality

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

  Topics in Effort, Perfection

  Tags in Worth

• Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Perfection

• A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Confusion, Perfection

  Tags in Means, Problems, Aim

• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Designer, Design

• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Genius, Humor, Perfection

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Perfection

• March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Fear, Life, Perfection