"The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes."

-- Haridas Chaudhuri

#Perfection Quotes #Awareness Quotes #Emphasis Quotes

“Literature is news that stays news.”
“The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.”
“If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.”

Source : Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.137, New York Review of Books
“Your hair looks like a haystack...but I like it.”
“Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. Â They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.”
“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.”
“I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.”
“People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'”

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