perfection quotes

• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ( Aristotle) [pleasure/perfection]
• 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. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [perfection/willpower/give]
• We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. (Pierre Corneille) [taste/happiness/perfection/sadness]
• Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. (Albert Einstein) [perfection/opinion/age]
• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age. (Albert Einstein) [perfection/opinion/age]
• No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. (William Hazlitt) [perfection]
• Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity. (Samuel Johnson) [perfection]
• The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions. (Samuel Johnson) [advertising/perfection/art/question]
• The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Arthur Koestler) [genius/perfection]
• In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [perfection/beauty/beauty/human]
• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. (John Ruskin) [perfect/demand/perfection/]
• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul. ( Seneca) [time/windows/perfection/philosophy]
• He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him. (William Shakespeare) [perfection]
• Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. () [ignorance/ignorance/perfection/art]
• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. (Mark Twain) [perfection]
• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. (Oscar Wilde) [condition/perfection/idleness/perfection]
• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. (Oscar Wilde) [perfection]
• She's like this perfection, this utter purity that's uncorrupted by anything. And if somebody were to f**k with my child, I would not hesitate to kill them. (Courtney Love) [perfection/child]
• Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life. (Hugh Laurie) [perfection/character/life]
• The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. (William Hurt) [perfection]
• “I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.” (Michael Fox) [perfection/reach/perfection]
• No one is truly doing very well. One surely isn't here to do well. Surely we have another purpose: Perhaps to know who one is, to know that which makes us suffer and that which causes suffering for others; maybe to love someone... Perfection is the ability to admit imperfection. (Anne Parillaud) [suffering/love/perfection/ability]
• “It's all about perfection, isn't it?” (Keira Knightley) [perfection]
• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. (Mahatma Gandhi) [perfection/perfection/moment/compromise]

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