Perfection Quotes - Page 39

• We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the sound connect internally, do they touch people's hearts, how creative are they.... ?

  David Finckel

  Heart, Play, People

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

  Thomas Merton

  Substance, Moral, Habit

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• Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Names, Receiving

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.536, 谷月社

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• The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Perfect, Grace

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Art Is

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• To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Understanding, May, Firsts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.553, Vintage

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• The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Hypocrite, Lasts

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.82, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God's will as possible; to live up to the highest light I have. I'm still not perfect, of course, but I grow daily... I am able to do everything I am called to do, and I do know what I need to know to do my part in the Divine Plan. And I do experience the happiness of living in harmony with God's will for me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Perfect, Desire

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• An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Should Have, Quality, Aimless Life

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• There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.

  Walter Murch

  Ideas, Two, Mind

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• Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

  Emily Post

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

  Denis Diderot

  Order, World, Might

  "Book by Denis Diderot". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.

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• When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Intelligent

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

  Nikola Tesla

  War, Mean, Might

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Mind, Meticulous

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• Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

  Mariah Nelson

  Passion, People, Competition

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• Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Creating

  Mariah Burton Nelson (1991). “Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women”, Random House Incorporated

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• See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Self, Quests, Endless

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• Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence.  At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

  Masami Saionji

  Perfect, Scales, Existence

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• A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

  Nick Nolte

  Warrior, Victory, Invulnerability

  "Fictional character: Socrates". "Peaceful Warrior", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Sick, Needs

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• Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Joy, Desire

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• Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Character, Training, Manipulation

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• Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

  Emo Philips

  Morning, Heart, Order

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• A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

  Walther Rathenau

  Strong, Men, Mold

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