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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. (Quote by - Michael J. Fox)

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful. (Quote by - Chuck Mangione)

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. (Quote by - Aaron Sorkin)

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. (Quote by - Goethe)

Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart. (Quote by - Kelly Millar)

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. (Quote by - Owen Feltham)

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. (Quote by - Ben Okri)

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. (Quote by - Debra Messing)

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. (Quote by - Paul von Hindenburg)

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. (Quote by - George Eliot)

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. (Quote by - Stanley J. Randall)

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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. (Quote by - Emile Zola)

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect. (Quote by - Sri Chinmoy)

Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. (Quote by - Richard Bach)

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. (Quote by - Ludwig van Beethoven)

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being. (Quote by - Eugene Herrigel)

Nothing that is complete breathes. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)

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