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• Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

  Tom Ford

  Personality, Strive, Wells

  "The man with the golden touch" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Procrastination

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• Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Excellence, Impossible, Achieve

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• I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete

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• Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection.

  Ferruccio Lamborghini

  Luxury, Lamborghini, Refinement

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• Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Character, Age

  "Karl Lagerfeld Smells Like "Fresh, Ironed Linen"". Interview with Emily Dougherty, www.elle.com. March 11, 2014.

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• When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

  Cecelie Berry

  Claims, Young, Knows

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• When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you.

  Cecelie Berry

  Heart, Optimistic, Essence

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• Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

  Michael Hyatt

  Consistency, Impossible, Consistent

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• Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Desire, Rooms, Causes

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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

  Might, Matter, Pursuit

  "No one reads a comic strip because it's drawn well". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Progress is more important than perfection.

  Simon Sinek

  Progress, Important

  Twitter post from Jun 07, 2011

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• Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

  Mario Testino

  Fashion, People, Bored

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• Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white shirts and ties and have missionary haircuts. These mothers know they are going to sacrament meeting, where covenants are renewed. These mothers have made and honor temple covenants. They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they are not pointing them toward desired eternal goals. These mothers have influence and power.

  Julie B. Beck

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• By raising Christ from death, God as the supreme Judge set his seal to the absolute perfection and completeness of his atoning work. The resurrection is a public announcement to the world that the penalty of death has been borne by Christ to its bitter end and that in consequence the dominion of guilt has been broken, the curse annihilated forever more.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Broken, Judging, Forever

  Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.94, Booklassic

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• There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Girl, Sweet, Thinking

  "Wanted: one leading man" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2004.

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• Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

  Doug Marlette

  Compassion, Race, Ease

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• The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by
  the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things
  doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble
  and well placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit
  into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.

  Henry Scougal

  Mean, Soul, Noble

  Henry Scougal (1775). “The life of God in the soul of man. Or, The nature and excellency of the Christian religion. And An account of the beginnings and advances of a spiritual life. 2 letters [by H. Scougal. With a preface by G. Burnet].”, p.31

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• We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Progress, Advancement

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• His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.

  Blake Crouch

  Halloween, Cutting, Darkness

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• Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

  Chloe Neill

  Hurt, Healing, Being Sad

  Chloe Neill (2012). “Biting Cold: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.97, Penguin

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• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Believe, Men

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• Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self... The philosophic search for enlightenment and the artist's search for perfection of work can meet and unite. Art can be a path to spiritual enlightenment but not to complete and lasting enlightenment. It can be born out of, and can give birth itself to, only Glimpses. For art is a search for beauty, which by itself is not enough. Beauty must be supported by virtue and both require wisdom to guide them.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Art, Self

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• In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

  Laozi

  Moving, Knowledge, People

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