Perfection Quotes
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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.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.
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Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
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The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process
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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
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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.
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Perfection can be a fetish.
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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
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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.
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One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
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Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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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.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
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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.
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The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
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Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.
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Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
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I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
