Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I'm chasing perfection.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

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.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

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.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.