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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
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
Beatrice Potter Webb
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston
Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment
William Shakespeare
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.
George Saunders
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
William Butler Yeats
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
Friedrich Wasiman
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
English Proverb
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Oscar Wilde
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
J. Yahl
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Albert Camus
