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

• 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
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

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

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Healthy
  • Environmental

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

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Perfection
  • Grave
  • Dull

• 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 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
  • Love
  • Think
  • End

• 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

• Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: 'Elitism!' And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. 'Standing out' is undemocratic.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Up
  • Society
  • Excellence

• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Idea
  • Passionate
  • Cinema

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

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Healthy
  • Excellence
  • Perfection