Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It’s not real life.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‚Sports Illustrated.‘ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‚Can Lou Do It?‘ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

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.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.