Perfection Quotes
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Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.
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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.
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We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
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True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.
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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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The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
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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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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
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When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
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Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.
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People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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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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Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!
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"I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for."
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
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The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.
