Perfection Quotes - Page 40

• The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

  Carlos Castaneda

  Body, Units

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Fire, Self

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• Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.

  Unknown

  Giving Up, Moving, Ability

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• Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Integrity, Men

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• In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Fallen World, Demand, Ifs

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• A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

  James Dobson

  Perspective, Healthy, Reign

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.67, Multnomah

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• Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

  Richard L. Evans

  Character, Common Purpose, Understanding

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• My mother is fine. For me it perfection.

  Michael Jackson

  Mother, Fine

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• Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Believe, Animal, Doubt

  "The Causes of Evolution". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1932.

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• Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Leader, Powerful Women, Authenticity

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.100, Knopf

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• Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

  Robert C. Solomon

  Kitsch, Execution, Tradition

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• You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

  Ani DiFranco

  Government, Ecosystems, People

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• Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

  William Hazlitt

  Sight, Expression, Imagination

  William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe (1925). “New writings by Willam Hazlitt”

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• We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Dream, Ideas, People

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• It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Teaching, Alive, World

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• The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

  Meister Eckhart

  Suffering, Bears, Beast

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• I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Way, Illusion, Process

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• Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Knowing, Gentleman, Wells

  First team meeting as Packers coach in 1959. "Game of My Life: 25 Stories of Packers Football". Book by Chuck Carlson, p. 149, 2004.

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• Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Journey, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Blessing, Flames, Sea

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• In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

  Rex Reed

  Passion, Angel, Greatness

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• The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

  Richard Rohr

  Differences, Giving, Important

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• Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

  Red Smith

  Men, Feet, Ninety

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• Be not afraid of those trials which God may see fit to send upon thee. It is with the wind and the storm of tribulation that God, in the garner of the soul, separates the true wheat from the chaff. Always remember, therefore, that God comes to thee in thy sorrows as really as in thy joys. He lays low and He builds up. Thou wilt find thyself far from perfection if thou dost not find God in everything.

  Miguel de Molinos

  Wind, Joy, Soul

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