Quotes About The Idea Of Perfection

#1. The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#2. We can only re-tell stories; we attempt, in doing so, to tell new stories. Is there a way out of this bind? I think the trick is to enter into it completely. Avoid purity. The idea of perfection sounds awfully boring.

Robert Kroetsch

#3. I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

Connor Franta

#4. The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

Kate Grenville

#5. When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.

Thomas Keller

#6. Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Hermann Weyl

#7. I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Shelby Foote

#8. I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

Lauren DeStefano

#9. There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection!

Oswald Chambers

#10. There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.

Georgia May Jagger

#11. The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Elihu Root

#12. Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

Gelsey Kirkland

#13. I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

Rene Russo

#14. Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

Keri Russell

#15. I see what's going on," I said. "You're confusing beauty with this society's current idea of perfection of visual form.

A.M. Jenkins

#16. I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life.
The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin.

John Shelby Spong

#17. Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

Bela Bartok

#18. To be true to an idea, you have to value expression over perfection, vitality over finish, movement over the static, and form over function. Put your personality before practicality and your individuality into everything. Ironing out impracticalities irons out what is unique.

Rod Judkins

#19. The idea which ... shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

C.S. Lewis

#20. Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#21. We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#22. The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

T Bone Burnett

#23. After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

Frederick Lenz

#24. If you've got an idea, act on it up to its perfection.

Debasish Mridha

#25. It's not perfect, but nothing is perfect except for an idea of something," he goes on, "And if we aren't experiencing the world and all we do is think about our idea of the world, then why bother with any of it?

Autumn Doughton

#26. A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Richard Steele

#27. What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

Frederick Lenz

#28. The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

Luis Figo

#29. At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

Max McKeown

#30. You are my idea of perfection, Beatrix Heloise.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a great literary character. Only in accidents of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage. (Rule of Four, 54-55)

Ian Caldwell

#32. We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#33. Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection.

Philip Zaleski

#34. Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Henry Fuseli

#35. I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

Adam Smith

#36. So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Douglas Sirk

#37. The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

Richard Flanagan

#38. There is such a thing as perfection ... and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth ... Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Richard Bach

#39. My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Criss Jami