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• Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Motivational, Women, Memorable

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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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• There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

  Victor Hugo

  Perfect, Lovely, Lovely Woman

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• Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Personality, Culture

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869)

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• The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

  Austin O'Malley

  Art, Source, Art Is

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• In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Earth, Safe

  1874 Leaves of Grass, 'Birds of Passage', 'Song of the Universal', Section 1.

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• The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Artist

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• I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Greatness, Achievement, Higher

  "Mirror Dance". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.

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• I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Order, People

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  Owen Feltham

  Change, Imperfect Things, Way

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

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• The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

  Rajneesh

  Names, Mad, Ready

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• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivation, Axes, Waiting

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• It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Perfectionist, Realising

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Long, Perfect, Would Be

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• He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Moving, Achievement

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• Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

  Odilon Redon

  Artist, Ideas, Approach

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• When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

  Edna O'Brien

  Trying, Tendencies, Hard

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

  Mooji

  Ocean, Doe, Wave

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• One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Principles, Artistic, States

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• The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.

  Byron Katie

  Perfect, Mind, World

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2013

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• Be content with nothing less than perfection.

  Walter J. Phillips

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• Progress not perfection.

  Court McGee

  Progress Not Perfection, Mma, Progress

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• We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

  Randy Bachman

  Imperfection, Imperfect

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• What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

  Semir Zeki

  Creative, Seeking

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• It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Strange, Witness

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.131, Oxford University Press, USA

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