Perfection Quotes - Page 5

• Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Perfect, Looks

  "Mastery". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Hero

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Settling the Score: Essays on Music”, Open Road Media

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• Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Men, Excellence

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1827, Princeton University Press

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• I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

  Tyra Banks

  Excellence, Here And There, Sometimes

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• Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

  John W. Gardner

  Stars, Excellence, Kind

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.142, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, People, Excellence

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Men, Artist

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Flying, World

  William Butler Yeats (1957). “The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats”

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• Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Perfect, Quality

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• Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

  Hans Arp

  Cutting, Childhood, Paper

  "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, Gallimard, Paris, p. 431, 1966.

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• Nothing quite new is perfect.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Perfect, Quitting

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• To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Needs, Species

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Standards, Ifs

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• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Expression, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, Blood, Thorns

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• And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

  Jane Austen

  Sick, Wicked, Amusement

  Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 March 1817, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

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• Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Perfect, Facts, Accepting

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• Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Knowing, Perfect

  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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• When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Inspirational, Moving, Target

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• A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Democracy on Trial, All Rise!" by Anuradha Kataria, p. 84, 2011.

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• The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

  Arthur Koestler

  Carpe Diem, Principles, Genius

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

  Edith Schaeffer

  Sports, People, Insisting

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• Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Excellence, Fiction, Wells

  1965 Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

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• Perfection itself is imperfection.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Imperfection, Not Being Perfect, Pianist

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• When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Two, Perfect

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.310

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