#perfection

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process. ↗

— Jerry Moran

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself. ↗

— Daphne Delacroix

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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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Style is the perfection of a point of view. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

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