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Quotes about Perfection

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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase
perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it,
because nothing is perfect. But we are going to
relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will
catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in
just being good.
(Vince Lombardi)
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Perfection is the child of time. Votes: 5

Joseph Hall

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Votes: 5

Vince Lombardi

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Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect. Votes: 4

Carolina Herrera

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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. Votes: 4

Emile Zola

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Perfection doesn't exist. Votes: 3

Andres Iniesta

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Perfection is pure-fiction. Votes: 3

Janelle Jalbert

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Perfection is only chance. Votes: 3

Tibor Fischer

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Perfection is really boring! Votes: 3

Erin Heatherton

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Perfection is always infinite. Votes: 3

Swami Vivekananda

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Perfection itself is imperfection. Votes: 3

Vladimir Horowitz

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Perfection is an impossible destination Votes: 3

Tim Ferriss

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Perfection can be a fetish Votes: 3

Bernard Leach

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Perfection is a moving target Votes: 3

Susan Fletcher

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Perfection is not very communicative Votes: 3

Yo-Yo Ma

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Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated. Votes: 3

Helena Bonham Carter

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Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity. Votes: 3

Willie Garson

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Perfection can be had by everybody. Votes: 3

Swami Vivekananda

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Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts. Votes: 3

Charles Caleb Colton

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Perfection is the enemy of greatness Votes: 3

Janelle Monae

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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. Votes: 3

Anne Lamott

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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. Votes: 3

Antonio Tabucchi

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As you embrace Consciousness, you embrace Perfection. Votes: 3

Tony Samara

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Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children. Votes: 3

Sylvia Plath

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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Votes: 3

Sylvia Plath

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Perfection is a polished collection of errors. Votes: 3

Mario Benedetti

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Perfection is a disease of a nation. Votes: 3

Beyonce Knowles

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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect. Votes: 3

Laozi

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Perfection can never be attained by work. Votes: 3

Swami Vivekananda

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Perfection is often the enemy of greatness Votes: 3

Janelle Monae

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Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving. Votes: 3

Neil Gaiman

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Perfection is lots of little things done well. Votes: 3

Fernand Point

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Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost. Votes: 3

Joyce Meyer

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Votes: 3

Aristotle

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Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim. Votes: 3

Ivor Cutler

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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress. Votes: 3

Anais Nin

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Perfection's awesome... So I strive for it every day. Votes: 3

Frank Mir

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Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams. Votes: 3

Rudolf Dreikurs

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Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live. Votes: 3

Primo Levi

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Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. Votes: 3

Rebecca Solnit

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Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy! Votes: 3

Jim Bouchard

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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. Votes: 3

Douglas Horton

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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. Votes: 3

Salvador Dali

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Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection. Votes: 3

Nikki Sixx

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Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest. Votes: 3

Andy Jenkins

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Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. Votes: 3

Criss Jami

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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. Votes: 3

Kevyn Aucoin

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Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working. Votes: 3

Azzedine Alaia

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Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us. Votes: 3

Swami Vivekananda

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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Votes: 3

Ned Rorem

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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. Votes: 3

W. Somerset Maugham

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Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong. Votes: 3

Lauren Oliver

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Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go. Votes: 3

Vincent Cassel

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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. Votes: 3

Louis Auchincloss

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Votes: 3

Voltaire

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Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion. Votes: 3

Lisa Genova

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Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life. Votes: 3

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw. Votes: 3

Noelle Scaggs

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Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement. Votes: 3

Conor McGregor

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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection. Votes: 3

Colleen McCullough

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Votes: 3

Vince Lombardi Jr.

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence Votes: 3

Vince Lombardi Jr.

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Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable! Votes: 3

Rupert Murdoch

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Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence. Votes: 3

Carl Jung

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Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings Votes: 3

Megan Hart

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Votes: 3

Michelangelo

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Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. Votes: 3

Michelangelo

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Perfection is based on your own perception of what is perfect to you Votes: 3

Avis J. Williams

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. Votes: 3

Thomas Aquinas

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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. Votes: 3

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. Votes: 3

Owen Feltham

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Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. Votes: 3

Brian Tracy

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Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. Votes: 3

James Stephens

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Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life. Votes: 3

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away. Votes: 3

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives. Votes: 3

J. K. Rowling

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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be. Votes: 3

Therese of Lisieux

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Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting. Votes: 3

Sun Tzu

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Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow. Votes: 3

Les Brown

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Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare. Votes: 3

Vicki Baum

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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi

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Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are. Votes: 3

Talisa Soto

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Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process. Votes: 3

Jerry Moran

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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man. Votes: 3

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. Votes: 3

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed. Votes: 3

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control. Votes: 3

Terry Tempest Williams

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Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind. Votes: 3

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Votes: 3

Ann Landers

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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. Votes: 2

Leo Tolstoy

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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Votes: 2

Harriet B. Braiker

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. Votes: 2

Robert H. Schuller

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. Votes: 2

William Faulkner

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Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it. Votes: 2

Okakura Kakuzo

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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. Votes: 2

George Orwell

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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. Votes: 2

Wayne Dyer

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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. Votes: 2

William Ellery Channing

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Votes: 2

Saint Augustine

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. Votes: 2

Epictetus

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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Votes: 2

Michael J. Fox

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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. Votes: 2

Josh Billings

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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. Votes: 2

W. Somerset Maugham

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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Votes: 2

Vince Lombardi

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible. Votes: 2

William Faulkner

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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Votes: 2

Joseph Addison

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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Votes: 2

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough. Votes: 2

Haruki Murakami

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I'm chasing perfection. Votes: 1

Kobe Bryant

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Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. Votes: 1

Kim Collins

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When you cook under pressure you trade perfection. Votes: 1

Gordon Ramsay

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Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion. Votes: 1

Joseph Addison

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Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself. Votes: 1

Ronnie O'Sullivan

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Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen. Votes: 1

Rumi

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Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. Votes: 1

John Piper

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Votes: 1

Eugene Delacroix

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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Votes: 1

Pierre Corneille

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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Votes: 1

Colin Powell

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Peter Mullan

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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. Votes: 1

Ben Okri

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Votes: 1

Adam Smith

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Votes: 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Votes: 1

Richard Courant

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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it. Votes: 1

Saint Ignatius

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Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel. Votes: 1

Steven Seagal

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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. Votes: 1

Alfred Adler

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I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions. Votes: 1

ASAP Rocky

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I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more. Votes: 1

Anne Hathaway

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Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection. Votes: 1

Drake

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Imperfections define perfection Votes: 0

Colleen Hoover

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Progress not perfection. Votes: 0

Court McGee

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Passion drives perfection. Votes: 0

Rick Warren

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Substance should outweigh perfection... Votes: 0

Phil Ramone

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Embrace nature's brutal perfection. Votes: 0

Boyd Rice

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Imperfection means perfection hid. Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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No confession brings perfection. Votes: 0

Oscar Romero

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Expect progress, not perfection. Votes: 0

John F. MacArthur Jr.

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Meandering leads to perfection. Votes: 0

Laozi

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The perfection of rottenness. Votes: 0

William James

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All perfection is melancholy. Votes: 0

Margaret Oliphant

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I fight for perfection Votes: 0

Mike Tyson

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Fact is, perfection is boring. Votes: 0

Robert Genn

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Nobody wants to watch perfection. Votes: 0

Nicolas Cage

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Reality and perfection are synonymous. Votes: 0

Baruch Spinoza

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Excellence does not require perfection. Votes: 0

Henry James

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The very pink of perfection. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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The universe doesn't allow perfection. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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I will never reach perfection. Votes: 0

Misty Copeland

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Focus on progress, not perfection. Votes: 0

Josh Bezoni

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Focus on progress not perfection. Votes: 0

Bill Phillips

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I expect perfection from myself. Votes: 0

Bryce Harper

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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There's no soul in perfection. Votes: 0

Keith Urban

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Man is rotten with perfection. Votes: 0

Kenneth Burke

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Strive for excellence, not perfection. Votes: 0

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. Votes: 0

Beatrix Potter

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Progress is more important than perfection. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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I believe that perfection handicaps cinema. Votes: 0

Jean Renoir

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Even perfection has room for improvement. Votes: 0

Ty Warner

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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection. Votes: 0

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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In my eyes, perfection is imperfection Votes: 0

Ville Valo

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Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection. Votes: 0

Ferruccio Lamborghini

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It's all about perfection, isn't it? Votes: 0

Keira Knightley

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A man's perfection is his work. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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The goal is progress, not perfection! Votes: 0

Kathy Freston

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The Law ... is perfection of reason. Votes: 0

Edward Coke

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Memory is your image of perfection. Votes: 0

Barbara Kruger

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I am not strong on perfection. Votes: 0

Jasper Johns

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My ambition is peace and perfection. Votes: 0

DeForest Kelley

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There is no perfection only life Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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Love is the bond of perfection. Votes: 0

John Winthrop

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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. Votes: 0

George Will

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Art is a shadow of Divine perfection. Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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What happens when perfection isn't good enough? Votes: 0

Scott Westerfeld

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... imperfection would get me farther than perfection. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. Votes: 0

Sheryl Sandberg

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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence. Votes: 0

Don Shula

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Beauty with character ages better than perfection Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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Personal growth is about progress, not perfection. Votes: 0

Hal Elrod

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Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection. Votes: 0

Wes Fesler

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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Be content with nothing less than perfection. Votes: 0

Walter J. Phillips

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There is no greater bore than perfection. Votes: 0

Richard Connell

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Strive for perfection in everything you do. Votes: 0

Henry Royce

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Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. Votes: 0

Gretchen Rubin

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The person seeing perfection is the Master. Votes: 0

Baird T. Spalding

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I truly am the reflection of perfection. Votes: 0

Ricky Martin

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Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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It is absurd to look for perfection. Votes: 0

Camille Pissarro

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We have to create perfection through love Votes: 0

Bernie Siegel

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Beauty is the attractive power of perfection. Votes: 0

Ananda Coomaraswamy

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You would attain to the divine perfection. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection. Votes: 0

Jewel

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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. Votes: 0

Quintilian

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Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection. Votes: 0

Thomas Berry

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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality Votes: 0

Questlove

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My body represents perfection. I am vibrantly healthy. Votes: 0

Louise Hay

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Your generosity is more important than your perfection. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits. Votes: 0

Richard Bach

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Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now. Votes: 0

Danielle LaPorte

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Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection. Votes: 0

Sri Chinmoy

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Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination Votes: 0

Danielle LaPorte

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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. Votes: 0

Henry Fuseli

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Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness. Votes: 0

James C. Collins

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The course is perfection and it asks perfection. Votes: 0

Nick Faldo

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None of us marry perfection; we marry potential. Votes: 0

Robert D. Hales

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Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit Votes: 0

Paul Travis

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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. Votes: 0

T.H. White

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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. Votes: 0

Edsger Dijkstra

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Art has no end but its own perfection. Votes: 0

Plato

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Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. Votes: 0

River Phoenix

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The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway. Votes: 0

Amy Adams

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The perfection of art is to conceal art. Votes: 0

Quintilian

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My mother is fine. For me it perfection. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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Donât aim for perfection, aim for success. Votes: 0

Eike Batista

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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection? Votes: 0

Wole Soyinka

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You want perfection, go to a bowling alley! Votes: 0

John Calipari

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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Style is the perfection of a point of view. Votes: 0

Richard Eberhart

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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection. Votes: 0

Ben Hogan

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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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A moment is all you can expect from perfection. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time. Votes: 0

Nalo Hopkinson

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What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity ... Votes: 0

Diane Keaton

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Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; Votes: 0

Jennifer Egan

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There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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Our pursuits are for perfection but possibilities are endless. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude. Votes: 0

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves. Votes: 0

Angela of Foligno

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Perfecting is a journeyThere is no destination called perfection. Votes: 0

Ashok Kallarakkal

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I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection. Votes: 0

Carl Lewis

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To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps. Votes: 0

Dejan Stojanovic

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The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory. Votes: 0

George Will

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Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection Votes: 0

Susan Jeffers

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Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . . Votes: 0

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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I looked for perfection, and I found something better. Votes: 0

Orson Scott Card

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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Votes: 0

Martha Graham

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The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you, Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. Votes: 0

William Law

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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. Votes: 0

Andrew Vachss

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The perfection of art is to conceal the sources. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas. Votes: 0

Odilon Redon

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I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp. Votes: 0

Richard Bach

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Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it. Votes: 0

Lupita Nyong'o

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What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings Votes: 0

Kobe Bryant

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The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character. Votes: 0

Yamada Koun

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Swans in the winter air A white perfection have Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. Votes: 0

Elias Hasket Derby

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When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing. Votes: 0

Edith Schaeffer

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The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline Votes: 0

Shantideva

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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes. Votes: 0

Haridas Chaudhuri

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It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection. Votes: 0

Ann Voskamp

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Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws~? Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. Votes: 0

Robert Schumann

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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts Votes: 0

Walter Pater

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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good. Votes: 0

Liz Phair

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Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection. Votes: 0

Pope John XXIII

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I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once. Votes: 0

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once. Votes: 0

Thomas Cole

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It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving. Votes: 0

Thomas Keller

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The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement. Votes: 0

Brendan Brazier

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Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport. Votes: 0

Jonathan Franzen

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I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists. Votes: 0

Mila Kunis

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I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection Votes: 0

Drake

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The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours. Votes: 0

Baird T. Spalding

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Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering. Votes: 0

Meister Eckhart

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Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really. Votes: 0

S. Khemka

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If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence. Votes: 0

Ken Blanchard

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Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection. Votes: 0

Andy Hargreaves

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The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection. Votes: 0

Morton Feldman

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Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe. Votes: 0

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable. Votes: 0

George Soros

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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. Votes: 0

Alfred Adler

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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it. Votes: 0

Nicolas Malebranche

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He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about. Votes: 0

Jamie Ford

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This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details. Votes: 0

John Wooden

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Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring Votes: 0

Mario Testino

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What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring. Votes: 0

Mario Testino

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If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow. Votes: 0

Dhirubhai Ambani

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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst. Votes: 0

Sheryl Sandberg

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Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection Votes: 0

Katy Perry

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Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Patricks

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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence Votes: 0

J. R. D. Tata

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The development of man is a return to an original perfection. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops. Votes: 0

William Shawn

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Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection. Votes: 0

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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There will never be any more perfection than there is now. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman

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When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. Votes: 0

Geoffrey Fisher

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Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter. Votes: 0

Debora Spar

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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect. Votes: 0

Taylor Swift

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record. Votes: 0

Tristan Prettyman

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The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too! Votes: 0

Joanne Greenberg

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This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. Votes: 0

Andre Agassi

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Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. Votes: 0

Homer

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I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning. Votes: 0

Conor McGregor

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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it. Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity. Votes: 0

Kathie Lee Gifford

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Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection. Votes: 0

Ne-Yo

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Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything. Votes: 0

Jean Chretien

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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence Votes: 0

Bo Ryan

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There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible. Votes: 0

Alan Chadwick

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The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg? Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about. Votes: 0

Kevin DeYoung

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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. Votes: 0

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection. Votes: 0

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable. Votes: 0

John Green

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Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment. Votes: 0

Arielle Ford

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance? Votes: 0

Agatha Christie

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Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant

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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. Votes: 0

Antonio Tabucchi

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Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight. Votes: 0

Lucero Isaac

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done Votes: 0

William Hurt

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Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection. Votes: 0

David Nevue

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I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection. Votes: 0

Christopher Walken

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The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit Votes: 0

Carlos Castaneda

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Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice. Votes: 0

Neale Donald Walsch

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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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Beyond all judgments of good and bad ...is perfection - Vivian Amis Votes: 0

Vivian Amis

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What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection. Votes: 0

Sam Claflin

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Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe. Votes: 0

Ka Chinery

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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. Votes: 0

Melody Beattie

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The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. Votes: 0

Jane Porter

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Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible. Votes: 0

Michael Hyatt

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... every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose. Votes: 0

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world. Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence! Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi

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It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings. Votes: 0

Neil Young

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There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection. Votes: 0

Bill Nichols

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It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. Votes: 0

Joseph Campbell

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Nothing â the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection. Votes: 0

Mike Schmidt

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I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept. Votes: 0

Jonny Wilkinson

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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection. Votes: 0

Adam Jones

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Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves. Votes: 0

Nouman Ali Khan

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Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws. Votes: 0

Francesco Clemente

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Thereâs no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race. Votes: 0

Doug Marlette

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What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it. Votes: 0

Semir Zeki

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I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me. Votes: 0

Martina Navratilova

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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it. Votes: 0

Allen Tate

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In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. Votes: 0

Curnonsky

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Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it. Votes: 0

Richard Krajicek

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Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down. Votes: 0

Ciara

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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Kevin Keegan

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Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. Votes: 0

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. Votes: 0

Agnetha Faltskog

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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often. Votes: 0

Ed Parker

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To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity. Votes: 0

Marion Woodman

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As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect Votes: 0

Joao Matod

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Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection Votes: 0

Murray Rothbard

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We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection. Votes: 0

Saint Francis de Sales

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The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. Votes: 0

George Soros

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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. Votes: 0

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. Votes: 0

Lewis Mumford

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There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection. Votes: 0

Sachin Kumar Puli

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Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. Votes: 0

James Cash Penney

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I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. Votes: 0

Alber Elbaz

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything. Votes: 0

Eugene Delacroix

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He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection. Votes: 0

Fred Alan Wolf

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When we bury the illusion of perfection, we uncover the reality of daily progress. Votes: 0

Terry Crouson

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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. Votes: 0

Teresa of Avila

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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. Votes: 0

Sidney Poitier

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What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? Votes: 0

Abbas ibn Firnas

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And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. Votes: 0

Noel Gallagher

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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts. Votes: 0

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

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Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men? Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Votes: 0

Darynda Jones

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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Novogratz

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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection. Votes: 0

Subir Chowdhury

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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. Votes: 0

Pir Vilayat Khan

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The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine. Votes: 0

Martin Buber

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I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them. Votes: 0

Jaron Lanier

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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. Votes: 0

Vilayat Inayat Khan

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Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside. Votes: 0

Onew

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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. Votes: 0

Temple Grandin

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The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah Votes: 0

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. Votes: 0

Dag Hammarskjold

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If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost. Votes: 0

Andrew Weil

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The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace. Votes: 0

Brother Lawrence

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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes. Votes: 0

Alber Elbaz

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The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. Votes: 0

Luis Figo

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Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. Votes: 0

Arthur Ransome

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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection. Votes: 0

Thomas S. Monson

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Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. Votes: 0

Sylvie Guillem

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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection. Votes: 0

John of the Cross

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Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world. Votes: 0

Arianna Huffington

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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well Votes: 0

Tom Ford

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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient. Votes: 0

Edward Coke

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it. Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. Votes: 0

Kate Grenville

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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending. Votes: 0

Tullian Tchividjian

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It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection. Votes: 0

Georges St-Pierre

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Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe. Votes: 0

Ka Chinery

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In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing. Votes: 0

Edith Schaeffer

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I canât help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection. Votes: 0

Kiera Cass

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Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart. Votes: 0

Gertrude the Great

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It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy. Votes: 0

Janice Dickinson

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The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good. Votes: 0

Pope Benedict XVI

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There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go. Votes: 0

Paul Arden

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As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places. Votes: 0

Collette West

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Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. Votes: 0

Joshua Reynolds

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There is no shortcut to perfection. All it takes is hard work, and more hard work. Votes: 0

Kim Jong-hyun

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What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. Votes: 0

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse. Votes: 0

Peter Goldsworthy

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I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to take this for granted. Votes: 0

Drake

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The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me. Votes: 0

Gordon Ramsay

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Ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling." Votes: 0

Bram Stoker

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I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection. Votes: 0

Mary J. Blige

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places. Votes: 0

Alexander Wang

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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it. Votes: 0

Benjamin Whichcote

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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals. Votes: 0

George Washington

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I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should. Votes: 0

Cheryl Richardson

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We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them Votes: 0

Markus Zusak

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Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection. Votes: 0

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it. Votes: 0

Richard Baxter

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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. Votes: 0

Albrecht Durer

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The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. Votes: 0

Geert Groote

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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life Votes: 0

Sir Walter Scott

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Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection. Votes: 0

Mark Crispin Miller

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That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. Votes: 0

Armstrong Williams

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You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth. Votes: 0

Thia Megia

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To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. Votes: 0

Norman Cousins

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These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper. Votes: 0

Henri Coanda

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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isâ¦the higher achievement.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Red Smith

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I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

Arielle Ford

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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Bayard Taylor

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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Benjamin Franklin

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Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Mignon McLaughlin

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The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Dora Russell

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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Immanuel Kant

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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

Jack Kirby

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I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

Mary E. Pearson

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How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Mitch Albom

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A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Richard Steele

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Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Wallace D. Wattles

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Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

Brett Hoebel

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The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

John Calvin

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Just look at me! Beauty. Style. A little vision of perfection. I love myself and that's enough.

Maryse Ouellet

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There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Rumi

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If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

Candace Wheeler

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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

Jaron Lanier

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Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

John O'Callaghan

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If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Malcolm Forbes

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We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Nicolas Malebranche

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It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

Galina Ulanova

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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Plato

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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Red Smith

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I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

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It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Swami Vivekananda

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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

Vince Lombardi

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To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

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It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Peter Doig

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So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Thomas Aquinas

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I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

Connor Franta

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Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

G. M. Trevelyan

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There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

Lisa Gerrard

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That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Rafe Esquith

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Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

Swami Vivekananda

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Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

Catherine Deneuve

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Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

Gichin Funakoshi

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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Mahatma Gandhi

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To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

Swami Vivekananda

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Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Eckhart Tolle

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Elizabeth Gaskell

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Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

Pema Chodron

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If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Scott Berkun

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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

St. Catherine of Siena

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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

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Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

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Listenin to nothin, takin no suggestions, All destructive criticisms that can't improve on perfection.

Daniel Dumile

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What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Kobe Bryant

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I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

Mike Tyson

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A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

Ralph Barton Perry

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Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Swami Vivekananda

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Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.

Swami Vivekananda

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Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

Swami Vivekananda

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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

Teresa of Avila

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When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Theodore Martin

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If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

J. R. D. Tata

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Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

Neale Donald Walsch

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I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Patti Smith

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mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

Rita Williams-Garcia

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An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

Simone Weil

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When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Carlos Castaneda

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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

Court McGee

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Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

Eyedea

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Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

Newt Gingrich

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Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

Thomas Moore

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Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

Alan Cohen

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Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

Chase Jarvis

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We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Debora Spar

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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Henry A. Kissinger

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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

John Locke

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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Jonathan Edwards

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Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Leo Tolstoy

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Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Mariah Nelson

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See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

Mary Summer Rain

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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

Patti Smith

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Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

Spencer W. Kimball

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Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

Stewart Cink

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You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

Agnes Martin

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Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.

Bryan Kest

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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Giuseppe Verdi

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Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

Mariah Nelson

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One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Vernor Vinge

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

Max Lerner

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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

Socrates

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My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

Tryon Edwards

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...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

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We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

Sterling W Sill

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I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

Victoria Woodhull

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Voltaire

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Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

George Zebrowski

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Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

Muhammad Asad

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Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

Thomas Aquinas

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Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

Anthony Mary Claret

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A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Donald Kennedy

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Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Ken Goldberg

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... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Margaret Fuller

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Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.

Marguerite de Navarre

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But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

Miguel Najdorf

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Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Swami Vivekananda

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

William Blake

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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

William Howard Taft

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Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Auguste Escoffier

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Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold

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If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.

Wayne Dyer

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The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

John Pintard

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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

Luc de Clapiers

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I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

Novak Djokovic

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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Thomas a Kempis

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A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

Walther Rathenau

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I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

D. H. Lawrence

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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Leigh Hunt

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I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

Truman Capote

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We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Ani DiFranco

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Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!

Joseph Prince

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The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Mazo de la Roche

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Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

C. S. Lewis

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Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

Henry Vaughan

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Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

John Dewey

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The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time

Kevin Flynn

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The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.

Nalini Singh

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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Swami Vivekananda

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It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Thomas Aquinas

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Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

BrenÃ© Brown

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When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

Cecelie Berry

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Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Henry David Thoreau

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Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Jane Fonda

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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Nina Simone

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The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

Swami Vivekananda

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It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

Yasmin Ahmad

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Oscar Wilde

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Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

Anna Olson

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Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.

AnnaSophia Robb

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I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Douglas Booth

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All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

Georgette Leblanc

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Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Rumi

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Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

Simon Sinek

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How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Ralph Marston

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A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.

William P. Perry

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There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

Abbi Glines

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The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

David O. McKay

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Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

Patanjali

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We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

Stephen Charnock

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I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

Chuck Close

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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

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My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Scott Berkun

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Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

Swami Vivekananda

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God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

Bill Hicks

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Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

Patanjali

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Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

Rajneesh

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

Samuel Johnson

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The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Socrates

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Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

Thomas Merton

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Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

Joan Lindsay

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There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Michael Cunningham

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For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

Rudolf Steiner

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

Albert Einstein

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I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

Betsy Rawls

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I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Ricky Martin

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The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

Jodi Picoult

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Plato

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The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

Richard Rohr

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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Sheryl Sandberg

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O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

Thomas a Kempis

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Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

Lynn Robinson

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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Rabindranath Tagore

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The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

Radhanath Swami

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There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

Tullian Tchividjian

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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

Alexander the Great

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You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Benedict of Nursia

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.

Gautama Buddha

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All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

John Cassian

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We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

Marcus Aurelius

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

Billy Graham

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As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

Hilary of Poitiers

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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Marcus Aurelius

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as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

Richard Carlson

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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

Bernadette Roberts

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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

John Stott

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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Ned Rorem

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What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

Robert Browning

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Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Jacques Barzun

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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Benjamin Franklin

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It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

Charles M. Schwab

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We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Fernando Pessoa

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In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

Daniel Gilbert

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The result of law inviolate is perfectionârightânegative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

Frederic C. Howe

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Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

Jenni Schaefer

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You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Rajneesh

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Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Abraham Maslow

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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

Austin O'Malley

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Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

Julia McNair Wright

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Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

Satish Kumar

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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.

Emma Thompson

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Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

Pythagoras

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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the comtemplative reason, and the desire for aestetic perfection.

Richard Courant

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We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

Stanley Kunitz

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The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Winston Churchill

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I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

Carol Bartz

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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Edith Schaeffer

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The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

Edmund Burke

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Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

Hans Arp

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The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

Henry Ware, Jr.

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There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

James Monroe

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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Leo Tolstoy

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Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

Saint Peter

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Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

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Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

Doug Marlette

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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Louise Erdrich

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Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Niklaus Wirth

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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Teresa of Avila

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In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded...

Walter J. Phillips

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The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

George Washington

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If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

Lester Levenson

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The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

Lord Acton

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

Peter Prange

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The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

Richard Rohr

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We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

Steve Camp

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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

William Ames

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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

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When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

James Dobson

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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.

Joseph Joubert

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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Luc de Clapiers

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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

Seth Godin

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All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Swami Vivekananda

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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Tom Peters

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Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

Ann Aguirre

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The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

Tom Ford

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Allah manages everything in the heavens and earththe sun, the moon, the starswith perfection, and yet we don't trust Him to manage our lives!

Yasmin Mogahed

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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Alfred de Musset

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I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

Drake

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Of course sportsmen and women are not only great role models, they are great fashion models too, as they are at the peak of physical perfection.

Giorgio Armani

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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

Mstislav Rostropovich

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As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Charles Darwin

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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Charles de Gaulle

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The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

Gordon Willis

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In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

Laozi

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When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.

Lissa Rankin

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It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

Rush Limbaugh

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Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Ellen Glasgow

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The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

T Bone Burnett

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Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

David Whyte

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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

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A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

Joy Browne

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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine ...

Teresa of Avila

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The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

Bonaventure

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Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

F. Matthias Alexander

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Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Fernando Botero

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Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

Masami Saionji

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Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

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I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

C. S. Lewis

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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Franz Grillparzer

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When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

Voltaire

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As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Charles Lindbergh

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Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

J. Willard Marriott

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In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.

Louis Berkhof

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By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

Parker J. Palmer

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The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

Brooke Westcott

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Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

Dan Millman

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The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.

Philip Neri

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We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

Thomas Merton

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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Alexander Graham Bell

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The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I am always giving my all and working to improve

Luke Wood

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So,would you say I'm closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know"are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?

Rachel Vincent

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Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.

Denise Austin

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Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Jennifer Egan

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As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Pema Chodron