#perfection

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#always #enabling #fact #films #i

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#effort #ever #expect #minute #moment

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #spirituality-of-imperfection #life

Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#imperfections #life #people #life

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life ↗

— Woody Allen

#perfection #reality #art

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it. ↗

— Edith Schaeffer

#cannot #could #find #insisting #looking

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#imperfection #overrated #perfection #beauty

When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aquiline, the nose sharpened, the chin narrowed, and his eyes-steel blue - somehow took on the cold brilliance of a northern sky. I am being very frank about my husband. He attracted me at those times, and he repelled me too. This man, I told myself when I first met him, is a perfectionist. And he has no compassion. Gratified like all women who find themselves sought after and desired - a mutual love for Sibelius had been our common ground at our first encounter - after a few weeks in his company I shut my eyes to further judgment, because being with him gave me pleasure. It flattered my self-esteem. The perfectionist, admired by other women, now sought me. Marriage was in every sense a coup. It was only afterwards that I knew myself deceived. ("The Chamois") ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#perfectionist #change

Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember. ↗

— Joseph Eastwood

#inspiration #perfect #perfection #writing #dreams