Striving For Perfection Quotes - Page 2

• Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

  Melody Beattie

  Self, Perfection, Excellence

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Strive

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.311, Manonmani Publishers

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• I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

  Tom Ford

  Perfection, Personality, Strive

  "The man with the golden touch" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Circles

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• Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

  Douglas Merrill

  Success, Differences, Perfection

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• On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Perfection, Sacred

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• Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Perfection, Mind

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• Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

  Anton Corbijn

  Perfection, Want, Stuff

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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, Perfection

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

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