#perfection

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#never #perfection #waited #word #would

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#anyone #aspirations #away #decades #denied

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#anything #astronomers #closest #discovered #empty

I'm chasing perfection. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#i #perfection

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. ↗

— Edward Coke

#common law #else #itself #law #life

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. ↗

— Kim Collins

#improvement #instead #perfection #strive

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ↗

— Richard Courant

#aesthetic #analysis #basic #basic elements #construction

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#consideration #creature #dies #given #imaginary

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people. ↗

— Dick Dale

#going #i #people #perfectionist

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection. ↗

— Jack Gardner

#decoration #perfection #utility #art