Perfection Quotes - Page 27

• In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.39, Indiana University Press

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• Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Faults

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• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Race, Unseen, Rolling

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.48, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Humanity, Religion, Christianity

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.269, Princeton University Press

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• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Institutions, Collapse, Layout

  Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Hollywood, Neurosis

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• Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Goal, Achieve

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• You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Thinking, America

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  Natalia Makarova

  Simple, Giving, Dancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Way, Snooker

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

  Keri Russell

  Moving, Hard Work, Fighting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Buddhism, Weekend

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• That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

  Armstrong Williams

  Athlete, Giving, Strive

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• What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Ideas

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• The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Dimensions

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• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Failure

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• Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Maturity

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• It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

  Socrates

  Eye, Men, Self

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• Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Sometimes, Moments

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• Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.

  Brené Brown

  Real, People, Perfect

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" by Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather
  asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never
  become complacent or despondent about our progress.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Self, Progress, Doe

  Jeffrey Lang (1997). “Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America”

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• Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

  Ciara

  Performers

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• I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Animal, Men, Magic

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• For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

  Harry Knowles

  Years, Cinema, Fiction

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