I've come to believe perfection only lives in little moments.
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Quotes tagged ‘Perfection’
My comfort with imperfection helps me create grow as a writer slash human being. I can (cautiously) follow my artistic instinct even though it feels cringey and scary to put myself out there.
No room for mistake.
Long live the (fictional) Queen, Olivia Colman.
I do not like the feeling of bones bending to fit your shape, creaking music of decay. You are eating away at my flesh, parasitic picture of perfection. I do not like the feeling of words stuck in my chest, lungs sticky with smoke and regret, second guess.
At her worst, Hollis refashions her own (apparently resolved) struggles into astonishingly harsh instruction for other women.
Coach Boone: It's all right. We're in a fight. You boys are doing all that you can do. Anybody can see that. Win or lose... We gonna walk out of this stadium tonight with our heads held high. Do your best. That's all anybody can ask for. Big Ju: No, it ain't Coach. With all due respect, uh, you dema…
— Gregory Allen Howard, Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, imdb.com
You look like a bunch of fifth-grade sissies after a cat fight! You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it, you got aggression that's even better you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression…
— Gregory Allen Howard, Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, imdb.com
We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work.
— Gregory Allen Howard, Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, imdb.com
You need to accept that you are not perfect, and that making mistakes is a normal part of being a leader and a human.
We are people, blind. Once again, we think we have the lights. We pretend we live such perfect lives, but we know we don't have love divine.
Here I am, former bitch asking for your forgiveness. Please don't let the message get lost because I'm perfect physically.
The master race has been perfected, Ryan, and they all go to our school.
— Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher, Seth Cohen, Adam Brody, imdb.com
Stop aiming for perfection. You did not come from perfect conditions. You are not perfect. What you are is someone who is still here. What you are is someone who made it, who is making it. What you are is someone who is surviving. Aim to keep doing that, as loudly as you can.
Perfection is the enemy of perfectly adequate.
— Peter Gould, Thomas Schnauz, Jimmy McGill, Bob Odenkirk, imdb.com
Tahani: I knew tonight was going to be perfect, but now it's going to be even perfect-er. Obviously, it's impossible for something to be more perfect than perfect. Michael: Well, it isn't, actually. Any place or thing in the universe can be up to 104% perfect. That's how you got Beyoncé.
Perfect people aren't real, and real people aren't perfect.
You're the captain of this ship. You haven't the right to be vulnerable in the eyes of the crew. You can't afford the luxury of being anything less than perfect. If you do, they lose faith and you lose command.
So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
Getting high used to be like how you imagine heaven. Pure light. The perfection of it all. Even in me. Then I got lost. Kept trying to climb higher. Get closer to that light. Like an endless ladder where all you do is get further and further away.