A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.John Henry Newman
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.Anna Quindlen
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.Albert Einstein
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.Michael J. Fox
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.Thomas Aquinas
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
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfection is insane. The entire tyranny of the perfect body, the perfect family, the perfect life is literally a commercial narrative. It has nothing to do with being human.Guillermo del Toro
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.Chuck Palahniuk
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry