#perfection

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #illusion #life #like #nothing

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#being #divine #enjoy #how #know

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

— Jerry Moran

#end product #excellence #perfection #process #product

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

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#get #help #i #least #myself

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. ↗

— Albert Pike

#ever #ideal #journey #kind #learning

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#loved #perfection #preoccupation #suffer

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#everything #i #important #made #more