We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly we should die.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

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

It's hard to be perfect It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning my answer has at least one merit that of perfect sincerity.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy ever if you want something you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else practice makes perfect.

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

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

If on occasion the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection and extended to all possible truth.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination and everything came out perfect.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

We will have to give up the hope that if we try hard we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

Hope the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.