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• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

  William Ellery Channing

  Eye, Excellence, Speed

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

  William Shakespeare

  Mars, Strive, Wells

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.436

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• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

  Epictetus

  Sports, Philosophical, Achievement

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• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Humorous, Men, Years

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Needs, Areas

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Change, Business, Perfect

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• Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

  Anna Olson

  Letting Go, Jobs, Energy

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• March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Sad, Moving

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• Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Acceptance, Trying, Different

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• It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, May, Reasonable

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes". Volume III,

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• The very pink of perfection.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  She Stoops to Conquer act 1 (1773)

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• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Teacher, Art

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• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Laziness, Youth, Aim

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

  Josh Billings

  Men, World, Should

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• Perfection is the child of time.

  Joseph Hall

  Time, Children, Excellence

  'Works' (1625) p. 670

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• It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Next, Canvas

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Crystals, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

  Scott Berkun

  Firsts, Window, Be Good

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Perfect, Standards, Universe

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• When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

  Debra Messing

  Life, Letting Go, Believe

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

  Alfred de Musset

  Intelligence, Triumph, Doe

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