Perfection Quotes - Page 6

• Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

  Jerry Moran

  Excellence, Ends, Process

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• Perfection doesn't exist.

  Andres Iniesta

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

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• How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Merchant Of Venice, Praise, Timeliness

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

  Edith Schaeffer

  Sports, People, Insisting

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• I do think imperfection's underrated.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Imperfection, Underrated

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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  Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Courage, Men, Perfect

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• Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

  Rene Angelil

  Life, Artist, Perfect

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• Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

  John Constable

  Light, Dew, World

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.153, A&C Black

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• I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

  Yann Martel

  Sea, Water, Wish

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

  Edward Bach

  Teaching, Civilization, Personality

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• Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Order, Desire

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• I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

  Stendhal

  Mind, Events, Action

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 1), 1822.

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• The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Self, Trying, Steps

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

  Chris Evert

  Should, Feels, Loses

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• I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.

  Claude Monet

  Perfect, Painting, Enough

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Development, Symptoms, Mankind

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• Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Order, Perfect, Horror

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• There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

  Charles Buck

  Law, Degrees, Saint

  Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

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• And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Laughing, Joy

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.154, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Lakes, Perfect, Tree

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.272, UPNE

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• He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

  Charles Lamb

  Mixtures, Matter, Pounds

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.48

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• This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

  Adam Clarke

  Jesus, Men, Creating

  Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.301

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