Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
We just wanted to build the best thing we could build
Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.
I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do.
If I look at it and feel there is someone who can do it better, I won't do it. Whether it's 'Party Down' or 'Piranha 3-D,' I'm going to bring something to it to make it special.
My goal is to be the best. That's my thing I want to achieve - the best that I can be - and hopefully, that's the best player in the NBA.
I work really hard. I'm a perfectionist.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.
