Perfection Quotes
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Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
Karen Russell
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Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
Benedict of Nursia
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Perfection is archieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Carlo Gambino
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Focus on progress not perfection.
Bill Phillips
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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
William Falconer
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Erica Jong
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Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
Angela of Foligno
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Lewis Safir
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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
Ed Parker
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I definitely see that out here in his coaching, ... He really stresses perfection out there for the bigs and for his point guards. Totally different style from what coach Skiles did. It's two different coaches, so I'm just trying to get used to everything and just take it all in.
Eddy Curry
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
William Hurt
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
Louise Erdrich
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
John Locke Nazareth
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The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.
Ernest Gaines
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Oscar Wilde
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Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.
Courtney Milan
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
H. G. Wells
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The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.
George Washington
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What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
Abbas ibn Firnas
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Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now.
Eyedea