Perfection Quotes
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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.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
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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.
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We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.
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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.
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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.
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Focus on progress not perfection.
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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.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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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.
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The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.
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To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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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.
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I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence.
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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.
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away
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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.
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What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
