Quotes on Perfection And Imperfection

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.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.