Perfection Quotes - Page 37

• The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

  Amy Adams

  Illusion

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

  Brooke Westcott

  Men, Saint, Faults

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• When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Mind, Levels

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

  Ed Bliss

  Healthy, Excellence, Waste

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• The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

  Karel Capek

  Civilization, Perfect, Machines

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• The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

  Frederic C. Howe

  Art, War, Hands

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• When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

  Edith Schaeffer

  People

  Edith Schaeffer (1997). “What is a Family?”, p.41, Baker Books

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• ... every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.

  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

  Long, Purpose, Entity

  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto (1997). “דרך ה׳”, p.57, Feldheim Publishers

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• Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.

  Paul Hindemith

  Past, Tears, World

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• Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Add

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• Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Here And Now, Absolutes

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• Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Light, Gossip

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• Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented.

  Thomas Keller

  Mother, Thinking, Doe

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Simple, Sane

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• Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

  Ken Goldberg

  Unattainable, Philosopher, Standards

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• Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart.

  Gertrude the Great

  Heart, Soul, Sacred

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• The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.

  Philip Neri

  Christian, Sanctity, Mortification

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• Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a creator, just like a watch. But there is a tendency to point to them and say 'It is impossible to believe' that such complexity, or such perfection, could have evolved by natural selection. Whenever I read such a remark, I always feel like writing 'Speak for yourself' in the margin.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Writing, Self

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.

  Debora Spar

  Mother, Stars, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

  Robert South

  Silence, Weakness, Noble

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• Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Patterns, Neighbor, Divine

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• Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Recovery, Persistence, Pay

  Jenni Schaefer (2014). “Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too”, p.16, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Expression, Heaven

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• Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.

  Debora Spar

  Life And Love, Lying, Responsibility

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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