Perfection Quotes
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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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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.
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The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
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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.
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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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The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.
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And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic 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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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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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.
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Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.
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Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !
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The Thrive Diet is not about perfection or idealism, it’s about progress.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
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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.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
