Perfection Quotes - Page 20

• If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Misery, Seeming

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• Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Progress Not Perfection, Growth

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 19, 2011

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• God just turns on all the beauty He can possibly create, and that final Heaven on Earth, the eternal one of the New Heaven and the New Earth will be the most beautiful of all and the most perfect!-The perfect government of God administered directly and in perfection in every way!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Government, Perfect

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• It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Daily Tasks, Mindfulness

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• Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Car, Mindfulness

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• ...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Light, Understanding

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• Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

  James Whistler

  Art, Desire, Way

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Art has no end but its own perfection.

  Plato

  Art, Ends

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

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• Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Care

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.451, Penguin

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• I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .

  Garrison Keillor

  Sweet, College, Air

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• Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

  Matthew Good

  Perception, Needs, Want

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• The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Impossible, Economic

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• False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Piano, Perfect, Doe

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• The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Boredom, Majority

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• The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Judging, Degrees, Tasks

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• 1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Together, Complaining, Looks

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• Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Mistake, Littles, Charm

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• The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.

  John Mason Good

  Art, Eye, Law

  John Mason Good (1837). “The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.93

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• The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Character, Men, Clothes

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.13, Kregel Publications

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• He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

  Robert Boyle

  Marriage, Men, States

  Robert Boyle (1966). “Works”

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• Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

  Ellen Meloy

  Alaska, Squares, America

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• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

  Matthew Arnold

  Mind, Becoming, Inward

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• Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.

  David Letterman

  Stars, Beer, Symphony

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• To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Inspiration, Advancement

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