Perfection Quotes - Page 18

• That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

  Armstrong Williams

  Athlete, Giving, Strive

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• What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Ideas

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• If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Mean, Buddhism

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• When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Dimensions

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• Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Oneness, Darkness

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• The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

  Richard Pascale

  Inspirational, Educational, Real

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• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Failure

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• Take just ONE minute today and look around you and within you and try for just that minute to understand the utterly amazing miracle and incredible perfection and beauty you are experiencing and observing!

  John Assaraf

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Miracle

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jan 07, 2012

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• Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Maturity

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• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Years, Long, Intellectual

  "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.

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• Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.

  Harold Speed

  Rubbish, Advent, Desperation

  Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

  Socrates

  Eye, Men, Self

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• Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

  Andy Jenkins

  Achievement, Standards, Lowest

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• Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Sometimes, Moments

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• Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.

  Brené Brown

  Real, People, Perfect

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" by Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Ideas, May

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religious, Attitude, Men

  "Slavery and Freedom". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1939.

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• I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Believe, Character, Men

  George Edward Woodberry (1899). “Heart of Man”

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• Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

  Johann Peter Eckermann

  Conceited, Men, Sensual

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277

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• The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather
  asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never
  become complacent or despondent about our progress.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Self, Progress, Doe

  Jeffrey Lang (1997). “Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America”

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• Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

  Ciara

  Performers

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• Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

  Muhammad Asad

  Religious, Islam, Individual

  Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.9, The Other Press

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• I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Animal, Men, Magic

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