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Being unique is better than being perfect.
Author:
Beyonce Knowles
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Success is not about achieving perfection, but embracing the beauty of imperfection.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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True greatness lies in resilience, not in perfection.
Author:
Sophia Bennett
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Success is not measured by perfection, but by progress.
Author:
Sofia Lopez
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Creativity doesn't wait for perfection, it thrives in progress.
Author:
Sarah Jones
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Strength is not found in perfection, but in resilience after imperfection.
Author:
Alexis Baker
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Success is not about achieving perfection, but about embracing possibilities.
Author:
Sarah Smith
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The beauty of art lies in the imperfections that make it perfect
Author:
Jasmine Banks
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Success is not found in perfection, but in the lessons learned from imperfection.
Author:
Jennifer Martinez
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Success is not in perfection, but in progress.
Author:
Samantha Roberts
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Embrace imperfection, for it is where authenticity resides.
Author:
Chloe Mitchell
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Author:
Emile Zola
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I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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Love is the bond of perfection.
Author:
John Winthrop
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That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
Author:
George Will
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
Author:
Richard Whately
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You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Author:
Morris West
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Author:
Voltaire
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
Author:
Andrew Vachss
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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Author:
Ali Talib
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But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
Author:
John Synge
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
Author:
James Stephens
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Author:
Bishop South
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
Author:
Aaron Sorkin
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Author:
Adam Smith
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There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
Author:
Josef Skvorecky
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Author:
Paul Simon
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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Author:
Philip Sidney
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Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
Author:
William Shawn
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Author:
Walter Scott
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Author:
Edith Schaeffer
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Author:
J. Salinger
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Author:
Elihu Root
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The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Author:
Maurice Ravel
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Author:
Colin Powell
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Author:
Sidney Poitier
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It is absurd to look for perfection.
Author:
Camille Pissarro
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Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
Author:
River Phoenix
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Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
Author:
James Penney
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
Author:
C. Parkinson
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Author:
Chuck Palahniuk
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Author:
George Orwell
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Author:
Jerry Moran
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Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.
Author:
Julianne Moore
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
Author:
Mark Miller
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Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.
Author:
Kelly Millar
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Author:
Michelangelo
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Author:
Michelangelo
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Author:
Nellie Melba
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
Author:
W. Maugham
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In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.
Author:
Jessie Matthews
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And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Author:
Kathy Mattea
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So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
Author:
Kathy Mattea
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Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts.
Author:
Melinda Marshall
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A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
Author:
Chuck Mangione
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Author:
Maimonides
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Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
Author:
William Law
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
Author:
William Law
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Author:
Ann Landers
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I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.
Author:
Jim Lampley
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The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Author:
Arthur Koestler
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For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Author:
Harry Knowles
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It's all about perfection, isn't it?
Author:
Keira Knightley
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Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.
Author:
Robert Kirkman
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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Author:
Pir Khan
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My ambition is peace and perfection.
Author:
DeForest Kelley
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
Author:
Adam Jones
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Author:
Michael Jackson
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
Author:
Edmund Husserl
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
Author:
William Hurt
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
Author:
Paul Hindenburg
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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Author:
Herman Hesse
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Author:
Benjamin Haydon
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Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
Author:
Laurell Hamilton
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Perfection is the child of time.
Author:
Joseph Hall
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Author:
Martha Graham
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Author:
Henry Fuseli
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Author:
Michael Fox
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Author:
Owen Feltham
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
Author:
William Faulkner
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There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
Author:
Agnetha Faltskog
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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.
Author:
William Falconer
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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Style is the perfection of a point of view.
Author:
Richard Eberhart
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
Author:
Albrecht Druer
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Author:
Celine Dion
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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Author:
Edsger Dijkstra
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Author:
Edsger Dijkstra
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I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
Author:
Neil Diamond
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Author:
Eugene Delacroix
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The beauty of a diamond lies not in its perfection, but in its unique flaws that make it shine brighter than any other stone.
Author:
Hannah Brown
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Author:
Salvador Dali
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Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
Author:
Richard Daley
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Author:
Samuel Crothers
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Author:
Ralph Cram
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Author:
Richard Courant
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Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
Author:
Kim Collins
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These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
Author:
Henri Coanda
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
Author:
Adam Clarke
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Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
Author:
Sri Chinmoy
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Author:
William Channing
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By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.
Author:
William Cavendish
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There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Author:
Bliss Carman
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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I'm chasing perfection.
Author:
Kobe Bryant
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
Author:
Richard Brautigan
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Author:
Josh Billings
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To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Author:
Jeremy Bentham
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The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
Author:
Ludwig Bemelmans
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As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
Author:
Roy Barnes
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Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Author:
Richard Bach
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In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
Author:
Edward Bach
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
Author:
Kevyn Aucoin
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Author:
Matthew Arnold
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Author:
Matthew Arnold
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Author:
Matthew Arnold
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Author:
Henri Amiel
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
Author:
William Ames
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Author:
Alfred Adler
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Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
Author:
John Abercrombie
