#perfection

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ambivalent #babies #being #being human #best

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them. ↗

— Kesha

#embrace #i #imperfections #them

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#aware #best #better #camera #going

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#craft #diva #does #her #perfectionist

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conceal #hear #imperfections #men #other

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#i think #mistake #perfectionist #think #which

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. ↗

— Paul Simon

#kind #looking #magic #music #often

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. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#completely #different #form #formed #found

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#any #artist #been #called #details

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#agile #animal #boot #europe #general