Perfection Quotes - Page 40

• Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

  Anna Wintour

  Reality, Careers, Important

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• Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

  Richard Bach

  Numbers, Limits

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• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

  Richard Courant

  Expression, Mind, Desire

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• A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

  Michelangelo

  Art, Overcoming, Impatience

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• Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Lying, Fighting

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• Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Christian, Suffering, Three

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• I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely that I was not really into trained voices. Some of the greatest singers can transcend their technical perfection and still sound great.

  Ira Kaplan

  College, Class, Voice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

  Stewart Cink

  Golf, Masters, Difficult

  "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.

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• We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the sound connect internally, do they touch people's hearts, how creative are they.... ?

  David Finckel

  Heart, Play, People

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

  Thomas Merton

  Substance, Moral, Habit

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• To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Understanding, May, Firsts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.553, Vintage

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• The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Hypocrite, Lasts

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.82, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Should Have, Quality, Aimless Life

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• There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.

  Walter Murch

  Ideas, Two, Mind

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• When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Intelligent

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

  Nikola Tesla

  War, Mean, Might

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

  Mariah Nelson

  Passion, People, Competition

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• Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Creating

  Mariah Burton Nelson (1991). “Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women”, Random House Incorporated

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• Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Joy, Desire

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• There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  God, Unique, Essence

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• A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

  Walther Rathenau

  Strong, Men, Mold

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• True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Fire, Self

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• Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.

  Unknown

  Giving Up, Moving, Ability

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• In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Fallen World, Demand, Ifs

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• Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Believe, Animal, Doubt

  "The Causes of Evolution". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1932.

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