Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
Antonio Tabucchi

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
Niklaus Wirth

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.
William Cavendish

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
John Abercrombie

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.
Sri Chinmoy

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert Schweitzer

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
William Shawn

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James Stephens

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
Richard Rolle

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Harry Knowles

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
William Falconer

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler