Ed Bliss Quotes

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

Ed Bliss

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Healthy
  • Environmental

• A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Healthy

• Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • Healthy
  • Used

• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Together
  • Perfection
  • Exist

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Healthy

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Story
  • Perfection
  • Short

• One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Trying
  • Cool
  • Excellence

• Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Love
  • Art
  • Healthy

• I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Where

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

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Perfection

• All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Healthy
  • Clients
  • Curvy

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

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Commitment

• Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Process
  • Excellence

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Ego

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Judged

• I am looking for excellence. Anyone can struggle but they cannot make a ‘perfect’ film.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Struggle
  • Excellence

• Education is the foundation of a lasting, prosperous, creative and rewarding hairdressing career. It raises standards of craftsmanship and professionalism throughout our industry.

  

  Nick Arrojo
  • Career
  • Education
  • Professionalism

• When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mind

• No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.

  

  Uriah Hall

• My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

  

  Damien Dempsey
  • Song
  • Firsts
  • Conscious

• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Healthy
  • Perfection
  • Excellence