Perfection Quotes - Page 29

• We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Worst Enemy, Ideas, Littles

  "Emmanuelle Chriqui Shares Her Beauty Secrets". Interview with Catherine Quinn O'neill, www.allure.com. January 17, 2013.

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• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  Nancy Allen

  Beautiful, Sexy, Smart

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• I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

  Patti Smith

  Matter, Facts, Achieve

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Order, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.9

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• To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Joy

  "9 Pieces Of Unfiltered Wisdom From Glamour’s 2014 Women Of The Year" by Emma Gray, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Daughter, Mother, Typical

  "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

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• Ive seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, theres nothing closer to God than that.

  Cote de Pablo

  Majestic Beauty, Nature Beauty, Overwhelming

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• Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside.

  Onew

  Talking, Shows, Wells

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• It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

  Peter Doig

  Perfect, Interesting, Painting

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• There is no shortcut to perfection. All it takes is hard work, and more hard work.

  Kim Jong-hyun

  Hard Work, Shortcuts, Shinee

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• Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.

  Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

  Real, Soul, Intellectual

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• ... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

  Craig L. Rice

  Beautiful, Hands, Tourists

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• Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Effort, Habit, Reaching

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

  Novak Djokovic

  Thinking, Games, Knows

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• I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

  Ali MacGraw

  Emotional, People, Miracle

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• I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

  Angela Bettis

  Get Better, Progress, Tools

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• Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Finals

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• The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Buddhism, Way

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• What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Mind

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• To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.

  Libbie Block

  People, Comedian, Forgiving

  Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”

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• A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mean, Men, Views

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Life, Motivational, Change

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• I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rapper, Views, Years

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• Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Son, Simple, Law

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

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• It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Destiny, Numbers

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.162, Routledge

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