PERFECTION
What is perfect is flawless,
faultless, unmarred, ideal, impeccable, consummate, immaculate, exemplary,
superb, superlative, supreme, excellent, and wonderful.
If you are working on
the perfection of any technique, you are trying to achieve improvement,
refinement, consummation, superbness, and flawlessness.
A perfectionist is a
stickler for perfection. He is a purist, formalist, precisionist, or idealist.
If a thing is perfectly
good, it is utterly, absolutely, completely, altogether, fully, exquisitely,
superbly, superbly, and wonderfully and thoroughly good.
Perfection is however
difficult to achieve. What seems perfect today, appears imperfect tomorrow.
Even the world is not perfect after billions of years. Perfection is thus a
process, not a final achievement,
The English writer John
Ruskin (1819-1900) said: No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand
for perfection is always a sign of misunderstanding of the ends of art.
According
to the Greek philosopher Diogenes (died 323 BC) to arrive at perfection, a man
should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be
made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures the
admonitions of the other.
The French writer and philosopher
Voltaire (1694-1778) says perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires
the hand of time
The
English courtier, orator and wit Philip Dormer Stanhope 4th Earl of
England (1694-1773) said: Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things
it is unattainable, However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much
nearer to it than whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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PUNCHLINE : Napoleon said : The word impossible exists in the dictionary
of fools.
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G.R.Kanwal
16 July 2026
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