Perfection Quotes - Page 34

• Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Appreciation, Eye, Views

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• In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

  Emily Carr

  Shining, Done, Quitting

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.92, D & M Publishers

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• We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Tides, Impossible

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

  Max Muller

  Philosophy, Keys, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 287, 1895.

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• People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  People, Humanity, May

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

  Temple Grandin

  People, High Standards, Standards

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.29, SUNY Press

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• My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Book, Despair, Way

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• Passion drives perfection.

  Rick Warren

  Passion

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.217, Zondervan

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• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Suffering

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• Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Perfect

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• To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

  J. G. Holland

  Struggle, Track, Humanity

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.112

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• This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Divinity, Way, Accepting

  Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.45, SUNY Press

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• If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

  Candace Wheeler

  Childhood, Humanity, Would Be

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• Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

  Alex Turner

  Song, Writing, Missing

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

  Donald Kuspit

  Art, Mean, Mirrors

  Donald Kuspit (2013). “Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

  Frances Osborne

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Uplifting, Running, Essence

  The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

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• You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Feelings, Ordinary, Time Left

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• I'm quite proud of my rear... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.

  Shakira

  Men, Thinking, Appreciate

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• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  Nancy Allen

  Beautiful, Sexy, Smart

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• I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

  Patti Smith

  Matter, Facts, Achieve

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside.

  Onew

  Talking, Shows, Wells

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• There is no shortcut to perfection. All it takes is hard work, and more hard work.

  Kim Jong-hyun

  Hard Work, Shortcuts, Shinee

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