Perfection Quotes
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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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Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
Salvador Dali
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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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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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So, from generation to generation, the spiritual church is rising upwards toward its perfection; and, though one after another the workmen pass away, the fabric remains, and the great Master-builder carries on the undertaking. Be it ours to build in our portion in a solid and substantial manner, so that they who come after us may be at once thankful for our thoroughness, and inspired by our example.
William Mackergo Taylor
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
Baruch Spinoza
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
Seth Godin
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
William Shakespeare
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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred de Musset
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I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence.
Bo Ryan
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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
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The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
C. S. Lewis
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
George Washington
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Colleen McCullough
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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
Thomas Aquinas
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Four years partly illness much perfection and rejoining beauty and perfection and then at the end there came a definite creation of something. This is what is to be measured.
Juan Gris
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Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
C. S. Lewis
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If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
William Law
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Meandering leads to perfection.
Lao Tzu
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
Rumi
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A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.
William P. Perry
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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith
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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery