Perfection Is Unattainable Quotes

#1. If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.

Will Oldham

#2. True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Vince Lombardi

#3. Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Nikki Sixx

#4. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

David W. Earle

#5. Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.

Meredith Vieira

#6. Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Ken Goldberg

#7. Another one of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, "Done is better than perfect." I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Sheryl Sandberg

#8. Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

Nocturnus Libertus

#9. People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.

Seth Godin

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

Lisa Genova

#11. Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.

Peter Watts

#12. Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.

Aleister Crowley

#14. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Liza M. Wiemer

#15. Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it's elusive and may be an illusion.

R.L. Griffin

#16. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

#17. I spent 2014 on a book tour for a book I hadn't yet written.

Anonymous

#18. The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#19. Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

#20. 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. - Chesterfield.

Orison Swett Marden

#21. Is there really such a thing as perfection? Of course not! It's a myth, a vicious rumor.

Aimee Cohen

#22. A clever general ... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

Sun Tzu

#23. The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

George Soros

#24. shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.

Brene Brown

#25. Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#26. Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#27. Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Brene Brown

#28. A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

Ralph Barton Perry

#29. SCREW PERFECTION. Perfect is the archenemy of Better. Perfect is boring. Perfect is unattainable.

Fay Wolf

#30. The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories ... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

Molly Ivins

#31. In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

Ivy Lee

#32. Multimedia scares me off.

Michael Nesmith

#33. To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

Dave Gahan

#34. If I were to go around glamouring people all day, I would at least make myself seem taller, don't you think?

Marissa Meyer

#35. The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Bayard Taylor

#36. I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

Adam Yauch