Perfect Quotes

• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Looks, Ifs

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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• The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.

  Nick Laird

  Writing, Writing Poetry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.

  Tim Heidecker

  People, Inspired

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Eye

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Moving, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I may not be perfect, but i'm always me

  Selena Gomez

  Breakup, May Not Be Perfect, Sad Break Up Love

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• Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

  Alice Walker

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Imperfect Things, Interesting

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• If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Writers Block, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from May 05, 2014

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• We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

  Grace Jones

  People, Might, Faults

  "Grace Jones: 'God I'm scary. I'm scaring myself'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Ring the bells that still can ring.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depression, Giving Light, Light Up

  FaceBook post by Leonard Cohen from Mar 11, 2009

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• Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Remember, Sometimes, Permission

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• People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

  Patricia Hewitt

  People, Challenges, Bigs

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth.

  Ron Killings

  Wwe, I'm Not Perfect, Not Perfect

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• Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

  Stephen King

  Book, Batteries, Dollars

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• It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real, honest, and spontaneous you are, the more freely the creative force can flow through you.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Honesty, Real

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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