It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas so that whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
Perfection – Nothing more than a complete adaptation to the environment; but the environment is constantly changing so perfection can never be more than transitory.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
To arrive at perfection a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
Perfectionism is a slow death. If everything were to just like I would want it to just like I would plan for it to then I would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake I experience something unexpected.
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect but love can be (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas so that whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
Perfection – Nothing more than a complete adaptation to the environment; but the environment is constantly changing so perfection can never be more than transitory.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
I dont 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.
PERFECTION n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Nothing quite new is perfect.
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. Thats how the light gets in.
To arrive at perfection a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
There is a crack in everything God has made.
The very pink of perfection.
The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection the nearer he is to it.
Perfection is the child of time.
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner you have learned how to live.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
Perfectionism is a slow death. If everything were to just like I would want it to just like I would plan for it to then I would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake I experience something unexpected.
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect but love can be (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.
No good work whatever can be perfect and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
Faultily faultless icily regular splendidly null.
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.
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.