Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.
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Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
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I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
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If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.
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Do what you need to do and if it hurts too much obviously don't do it.
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Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?
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My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
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The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.
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Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.
