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It leaves a bad taste in your mouth, naturally, it's bittersweet. We wanted to go 4-0, but three out of four on a road trip where we played two back-to-backs is not bad. We seek perfection. We always want to be better. – Kevin Love	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They were priced to perfection. – Josh Stein	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These unicorns are sort of priced to perfection. They are getting up-front credit for future year growth. – Anand Sanwal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When you understand the soul of black America and you understand how important iconography is and you understand how important the image of black family perfection ... is, you realize that there's no way to do something like this without it being hugely conversational, if not confrontational, and in many cases painful for people. – Kierna Mayo	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The bar for perfection continues to raise every day for each chef, chefs who have worked in The Japanese know that small details of a dish are equally important as its taste and aroma. Generally, people in Tokyo like to have many dishes for each meal, but in small portions. – Yoshiharu Kaji	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I associate it with not knowing who I was or what I wanted to do, i wasn't Sharon Degener or the sporty kid. I was just there and it spiraled into looking for perfection and control. The irony is that it almost took away my chance to live. – Sharon Degener	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The 100.20 carat diamond is the definition of perfection, the color is whiter than white, it is free of any internal perfections, and so transparent that I can only compare it to a pool of water. – Gary Schuler	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
...The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. – Masanobu Fukuoka	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. – Marie Curie	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. – Philip Sidney	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. – Benjamin Haydon	added by anonymous 10 years ago
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds. – Lydia Child	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The perfection of art is to conceal art. – Edgar Quinet	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. – William Butler Yeats	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You can make amends of your flaws and faults if you strive for perfection and succeed – Sandile Sean Mntla	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. – Robert South	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. – Eugène Delacroix	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo	added by anonymous 10 years ago

It leaves a bad taste in your mouth, naturally, it's bittersweet. We wanted to go 4-0, but three out of four on a road trip where we played two back-to-backs is not bad. We seek perfection. We always want to be better.

– Kevin Love

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They were priced to perfection.

– Josh Stein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These unicorns are sort of priced to perfection. They are getting up-front credit for future year growth.

– Anand Sanwal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you understand the soul of black America and you understand how important iconography is and you understand how important the image of black family perfection ... is, you realize that there's no way to do something like this without it being hugely conversational, if not confrontational, and in many cases painful for people.

– Kierna Mayo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The bar for perfection continues to raise every day for each chef, chefs who have worked in The Japanese know that small details of a dish are equally important as its taste and aroma. Generally, people in Tokyo like to have many dishes for each meal, but in small portions.

– Yoshiharu Kaji

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I associate it with not knowing who I was or what I wanted to do, i wasn't Sharon Degener or the sporty kid. I was just there and it spiraled into looking for perfection and control. The irony is that it almost took away my chance to live.

– Sharon Degener

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The 100.20 carat diamond is the definition of perfection, the color is whiter than white, it is free of any internal perfections, and so transparent that I can only compare it to a pool of water.

– Gary Schuler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

...The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

– Masanobu Fukuoka

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

– Marie Curie

added by anonymous
9 years ago

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

– Philip Sidney

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

– Benjamin Haydon