#perfection

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. ↗

— Jack Brymer

#clarinet #imperfections #instrument #never #overcome

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement. ↗

— Ludacris

#feel #i #i always #improvement #perfectionist

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. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #emotion #go #groove #machine

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#fact #i #i think #in fact #leaks

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#allow #back #deep #dig #down

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. ↗

— Debra Messing

#believe #endgame #fundamentally #go #happiness

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience. ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#audience #imperfections #stage #them #whether

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#children #contentment #control #importantly #joy

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#collapse #institutions #layout #only #perfection