Perfection Quotes - Page 17

• All things are complete within ourselves.

  Mencius

  All Things

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• We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

  Max Lerner

  Political, Demand, Politician

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• The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

  John Cheever

  Men, Organization, Helping

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• It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

  Robert Breault

  Hard

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• As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Easier

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• Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Faults

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• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Race, Unseen, Rolling

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.48, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Humanity, Religion, Christianity

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.269, Princeton University Press

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• Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Shadow, Divine

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• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Institutions, Collapse, Layout

  Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

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• "Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.

  Edward T Welch

  Jesus, Spirit, Sin

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Hollywood, Neurosis

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• I am not strong on perfection.

  Jasper Johns

  Strong, Not Strong

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• Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Goal, Achieve

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• You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Thinking, America

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• It's all about perfection, isn't it?

  Keira Knightley

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  Natalia Makarova

  Simple, Giving, Dancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Way, Snooker

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Years, Problem, Relentless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

  Keri Russell

  Moving, Hard Work, Fighting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Book, Fall, Age

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• I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Hollywood, Youth, Talent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Views

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• It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Buddhism, Weekend

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• Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Health, Buddhism

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