Quotes About Achieving Perfection

#1. 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

#2. Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Dreaming big is better than wasting time achieving perfection

Me XD

#4. We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#5. Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#6. I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

Mia Wasikowska

#7. The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

Ovid

#8. An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

Lou Brock

#11. Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

George Farquhar

#12. When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I
survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II
a self-fulfillment focus ... Love's definition is in a transition.

Warren Farrell

#14. Thou shalt not invest in a needless business. Thou shalt not trade time for money. Thou shalt not operate on a limited scale. Thou shalt not relinquish control. Thou shalt not let a business startup be an event over process.

M.J. DeMarco

#15. I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I'm tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I'm going to go and produce something.

Kirk Cameron

#16. Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#17. What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?

You focus on the really good ones!

Storm Princeholm

#18. Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.

Pema Chodron

#19. What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Eleanor Brown