John Ruskin Quotes

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

I'm not perfect, but I do my best.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.

There's no one of us that's perfect; there's no one of us that can't do just a little better.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.