But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.
For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.
It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.