Ed Bliss Quotes
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
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CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.
Fabiola Gianotti
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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
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius
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Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
Victoria Principal
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham
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A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.
Beau Mirchoff
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
Yahya Jammeh
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
Caitlyn Jenner
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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.
H. P. Lovecraft
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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
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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
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
Bear Grylls
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I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.
Candice Accola
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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
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
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All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.
Rachel Zoe
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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.
Vince Lombardi
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
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We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
Calvin Klein
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The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.
Urie Bronfenbrenner
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
Nicolas Cage
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The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
Ed Bliss