A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

一个设计师知道他达到了完美，不是因为没有什么可以添加的，而是因为没有什么可以删除的。

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

手段的完善和目标的混乱似乎是我们的主要问题。

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

原则是完美的表现，因为像我们这样不完美的人不能实践完美，所以我们在实践中每时每刻都在设计妥协的极限。

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

前进，永不停止，因为前进是完美的。你们要前进，不要惧怕路上的荆棘，因为荆棘只流人的血。

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 those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

追求每件事的完美，尽管在大多数事情上是不可能做到的。然而，那些瞄准目标并坚持不懈的人，将比那些因为懒惰和沮丧而无法实现目标的人更接近目标。

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此，我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

在任何事情上追求完美的艺术家，在任何事情上都无法达到完美。

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

芭蕾舞的完美形象是在这样一个环境中塑造的:残缺不全的身体、狂热的想象、巴尔干半岛的阴谋和充满硫磺的仇恨，在任何可能发生的地方，舞者都知道这一点。

Body confidence does not come from trying to achieve the 'perfect' body, it comes from embracing the one you've already got.

身体自信不是来自于追求“完美”的身体，而是来自于拥抱你已经拥有的身体。

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

只有当我们觉得我们的完美不是完美的时候，只要其他人仍然不完美，完整和彻底的完美才会出现。

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

谨慎是完美的理性，是我们生活中所有职责的向导。

Done is better than perfect.

完成总比完美好。

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

即使我们追求完美，生活也不过是通过一系列或大或小的不完美来实现的。

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

不完美是一个永不停止的过程。

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

电影在很大程度上与完美有关，在电影的开头和结尾，你对一个人的感觉是多么的不同。