Close To Perfection Quotes

#1. 'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

John Malkovich

#2. A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection ... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#4. The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

George Sarton

#5. To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Zhuangzi

#6. He isn't the best, neither am I. But we are the best version of ourselves with each other. And that's pretty close to Perfection.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#7. You're already so close to perfection, but there are these occasional lapses . . .

Pepper Winters

#8. I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine ... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

Chuck Close

#9. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

Edmundo Desnoes

#10. There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection ... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Kobe Bryant

#12. Grace is that ability; to face adversity and be at ease, to enter into the suffering world and help others without losing yourself in the process. It is to be true to your most essential nature, and produce something good from that. To have grace is as close as we may come to perfection.

Christopher Daniel Mechling

#13. I've always questioned the so-called perfection of surfaces. If you looked close enough, there was always a flaw.

Amy Talkington

#14. You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said.
"And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table.
Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection.

Jill Shalvis

#15. Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

Tina Brown

#16. In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#17. When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

Alan Cohen

#18. I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

Rutger Hauer

#19. I say this is about as close to perfect as anything can be. Good God, hellion, I don't think I could take much more perfection and live through it." "Every

Jill Barnett

#20. The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

William Wordsworth

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

Tristan Prettyman

#22. No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.

George Herbert

#23. I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.

David Gordon Green

#24. I've learned that love is a beautiful burn in a quiet corner of the heart that won't be ignored.

Adriane Leigh

#25. Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#26. An accountability partner you only contact when you are winning isn't an accountability partner, it's a cheerleader. It's

Jon Acuff

#27. There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.

Shimon Peres

#28. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.

John Welwood

#29. The world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

Craig L. Rice

#30. Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

Red Smith