Perfect Is An Illusion Quotes

#1. Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.

Seth Godin

#2. Good becomes perfect, but perfect is an illusion. And illusions are like all spells - temporary and soon broken. And when that happens, feelings change.

Erin McCahan

#3. If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

John Green

#4. It wasn't perfect: so what? Life isn't perfect: life is what happens while you're waiting for your moment in the sun and if you miss it, waiting instead for the perfect illusion that Hollywood sells, then more fool you. I'd spent half my life waiting for the right moment: I was done with waiting.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#5. Both cities had numerous tall buildings, but that was pretty much where their similarities ended. While New York appeared dirty and lived in, Chicago was spotless and trash free, newer maybe. And where New York buzzed with constant energy, Chicago exuded more of a gentle hum.

J. Sterling

#6. Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

#7. Destiny' is the state of perfect mechanical causation in which everything is the consequence of everything else. If choice is an illusion, what's life? Consciousness without volition. We'd all be passengers, no more real than model trains.

Nick Harkaway

#8. Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry.

Jojo Moyes

#9. If appearance is only a trick of the nerves, and apparition is only a lesser trick of the nerves, a less perfect illusion, then this expectation, this sense of a presence unperceived, was not particularly illusory as things in this world go.

Marilynne Robinson

#10. Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.

Jessica White

#11. Since everything is but an illusion,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection,
One might as well burst out laughing!

Longchen Rabjam

#12. Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

Jean Baudrillard

#13. The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community.

Rick Warren

#14. Perfect is not only an illusion, it's just no damn fun.

Michelle Dalton

#15. Fire opens the gates of victory.

Alexander Suvorov

#16. Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

Melody Beattie

#17. Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

Debbie Ford

#18. Illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside

John Green

#19. I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that? ...

John Geddes

#20. I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

#21. I am too good at making you see what you want to see. It has been hard my whole life to make that picture seem so perfect. The perfect daughter in the perfect family who was after all not so perfect. There was again only the illusion of what outsiders wanted to see.

Abigail George

#22. No one gave me the secret decoder ring on how to make friends.

Sharon E. Rainey

#23. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.

Leonard Jacobson

#24. It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.

David Hume

#25. The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Rudolf Arnheim

#26. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#27. Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion ... any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#28. The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

Alex Berenson

#29. I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

Aaron Sanchez

#30. Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Alex Borstein

#31. It had been a perfect fit, but perfection can be an illusion.

Kerry Lonsdale

#32. When in doubt, don't post.

Dan Schawbel

#33. It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

Sarah McLachlan

#34. It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.

Patrick O'Brian

#35. My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

Ashley Beale

#36. Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Lisa Genova

#37. Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

Jim Steinmeyer

#38. You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is real. You live your life by justifying that story. And by justifying the story, you are wasting your life.

Miguel Ruiz

#39. He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.

Nancy B. Brewer

#40. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

Raymond Chandler

#41. People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley