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.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.

In a weird kind of way music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Music is harmony harmony is perfection perfection is our dream and our dream is heaven.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Choose silence of all virtues for by it you hear other men's imperfections and conceal your own.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think might dispose us to modesty.

Philosophy is a kind of journey ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really really wants to do something great.

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection if you would of our intelligence.