#perfection

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

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

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#days #done #everybody #everything #get

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

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#perfection #practice #requires #salesmanship #study

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good. ↗

— Liz Phair

#did #good #me #never #perfection

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

— Sidney Poitier

#loved #perfection #preoccupation #suffer

The perfection of art is to conceal art. ↗

— Quintilian

#conceal #perfection