Perfection Quotes
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It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
Bonaventure
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
Thomas Carlyle -
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing -
Progress is more important than perfection.
Simon Sinek -
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
Confucius -
My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.
Georges St-Pierre -
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith
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My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.
Miranda Raison -
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
Victor Hugo -
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
Carl Joachim Friedrich -
Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
Carrie Jones -
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.
Simon Greenleaf -
If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
Francis Atterbury
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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
Nilakanta Sri Ram -
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Bernadette Roberts -
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer -
I fight for perfection.
Mike Tyson -
A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.
William P. Perry -
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
Herbert Spencer
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
William Ames -
Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle.
Michelangelo -
“It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
Elizabeth Goudge -
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.
Eugen Herrigel