It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

在我们的眼中拥有完美是合理的，这样我们就可以一直朝着它前进，尽管我们知道它永远无法达到。

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

爵士乐代表自由。这应该是自由的声音:走出去，即兴发挥，抓住机会，不要做一个完美主义者——把这留给古典音乐家。

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

乔纳森是一团明亮的小火，在我们每个人心中燃烧，只存在于我们达到完美的时刻。

Life is the right of every child. Not a special privilege for the fortunate, the planned, and the perfect.

生命是每个孩子的权利。不是为那些幸运的、有计划的和完美的人准备的特权。

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

生活在广告的时代，我们总是幻想破灭。完美的生活每天都在我们面前展开，但它一触即变，枯萎了。

Love means that you accept a person with all their failures, stupidities, ugly points, and nonetheless, you see perfection in imperfection itself.

爱意味着你接受一个人所有的失败，愚蠢，丑陋的点，尽管如此，你看到完美的不完美本身。

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

躺在床上是一种完美的、至高无上的体验，只要你有一支足够长的彩色铅笔在天花板上画画。

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

没有一件好作品是完美的，对完美的要求总是对艺术目的的误解。

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

没有人能达到完美，除非他们自己不知道。

No one is perfect and perfectly holy but God alone.

除了神以外，没有人是完全圣洁的。

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

没有人比想象自己内心纯洁的人更危险，因为他的纯洁，从定义上说，是无懈可击的。

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

没有什么是完整的，因此没有什么是可以免于批评的。

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

通常，当你达到很高的成就水平时，你几乎会因为你可能做的任何事情都可能不完美而麻痹。完美就是努力，努力，奋斗，但是很难记住。

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

只有平庸才能被相信永远处于最佳状态。

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

原罪是关于人的一件事，它使人能够设想自己的完美，却不能实现它。