Perfection Quotes - Page 12

• Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

  Anton Corbijn

  Want, Stuff, Digital

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• Nobody wants to watch perfection.

  Nicolas Cage

  Watches, Want

  "You've got to be able to break the wall". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Light, Worry

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Light, Choices

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• If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

  Richard Bach

  Heaven, Swamps, Stagnation

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.84, Delta

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• Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

  Ann Voskamp

  Home, Homemaking

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• Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

  Samuel Richardson

  Mind Love, And Love, Doe

  Samuel Richardson, Anna Laetitia Barbauld (2011). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• I feel very lucky for that gift that I was given but it´s been quite tough to deal with sometimes too. When you are blessed with something like this and it brings emotions to people - to keep up to the magical standard that everybody wants it to be and the perfection - can be hard.

  Sarah Brightman

  Blessed, People, Lucky

  FaceBook post by Sarah Brightman from Jun 08, 2013

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• We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

  Vince Lombardi

  Greatness, Perfect, Achieve

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• It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Errors, Soul, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.350, Manonmani Publishers

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• Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loss, Individuality, Would Be

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.32, Full Moon Publications

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• A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Mean, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Believe, Heart, Giving

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Taoism, Immortality

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• Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Artist, Errors, Keys

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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.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Safe, Generations

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on His 'Sound City' Doc and Taking Risks in Music". Interview with Katie Van Syckle, www.rollingstone.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pessimism, Defects, Humans

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “On Human Nature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

  Thomas Berry

  Kids, Diversity, Tolerance

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• People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Best Effort

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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Common Sense

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• The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

  William Howard Taft

  Responsibility, Character, Masonic

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• What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.

  Albert Pike

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Men, Oasis

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• I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Perfect, Pieces

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