Perfection Quotes
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.
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I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to 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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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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Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
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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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Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.
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Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
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Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.
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Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
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So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
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I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing us closer to His will for us.
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I fight for perfection.
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I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.
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If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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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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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
