Search For Perfection Quotes

#1. This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

Bernadette Roberts

#2. There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

Agnetha Faltskog

#3. And what's Cristiano's style? With his constant search for perfection, he fits the 'classical' mould. He has constantly refined his play, eliminating even the tiniest flourishes to perfect the most utilitarian form and winning formula. Both he and Messi are products of their footballing

Luca Caioli

#4. I think of every double-decker loop as another loop towards my death. And that is why I've always thought of the double-decker loop as - each loop as a continuous and individualized search for perfection.

Timothy Levitch

#5. It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#6. The search for perfection is all good and well ...
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell.

Sting

#7. Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

Hans Arp

#8. A selfie has nothing to do with ego. It is a constant search for perfection.

Chloe Thurlow

#9. Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Celine Dion

#10. Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

Emo Philips

#11. A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Pir Vilayat Khan

#12. It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

M.F.K. Fisher

#13. It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#14. His parted lips were lips which spoke, not of love, but of millions of miles; those were eyes which habitually gazed, not into the depths of other eyes, but into other worlds. Within his temples dwelt thoughts, not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations.

Thomas Hardy

#15. You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

Kinky Friedman

#16. I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

Joaquin Phoenix

#17. The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Malcolm Wallop

#18. We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Peter Goldsworthy

#19. So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year.
Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off?
M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

Haruki Murakami

#20. The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China's Confucian society, the best pathway to perfection was the development of a virtuous life.

Patrick Mendis

#21. When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

John Keats