Perfection famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
-- Abbas ibn Firnas -
In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
-- Abbi Glines -
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
-- Adam Clarke -
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
-- Adam Smith -
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
-- African Spir -
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.
-- Agnes Martin -
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.
-- Agnes Martin -
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
-- Agnes Martin -
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.
-- Alain de Botton -
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
-- Alain Ducasse -
If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
-- Alan Chadwick -
When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.
-- Alan Cohen -
I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.
-- Alber Elbaz -
I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
-- Albert Pike -
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
-- Albrecht Durer -
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
-- Aldous Huxley -
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
-- Aleister Crowley -
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 -
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.
-- Alexander Smith -
To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.
-- Alexander Smith -
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
-- Alexander the Great -
In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
-- Alexander Wang -
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
-- Alfred Adler -
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
-- Alfred de Musset -
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
-- Ali MacGraw -
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
-- Allen Tate -
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
-- Anais Nin -
In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
-- Anais Nin -
Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.
-- Anderson Silva -
Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
-- Andre Agassi -
This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.
-- Andre Agassi -
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
-- Andre Malraux -
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
-- Andre Maurois -
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.
-- Andy Jenkins -
I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.
-- Angela Bettis -
No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefore if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.
-- Angela of Foligno -
Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.
-- Ann Aguirre -
Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.
-- Anna Olson -
There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.
-- AnnaSophia Robb -
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
-- Anne Lamott -
Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.
-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune -
If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.
-- Annie Besant -
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.
-- Anton Corbijn -
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
-- Armstrong Williams -
The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
-- Arthur Davison Ficke -
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.
-- Atul Gawande -
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
-- Auguste Escoffier -
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.
-- Augustine Birrell -
All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.
-- Averroes -
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.
-- Azar Nafisi -
Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.
-- Azzedine Alaia -
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you,
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The person seeing perfection is the Master.
-- Baird T. Spalding -
Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.
-- Baird T. Spalding -
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
-- Barack Obama -
Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
-- Baroness Orczy -
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
-- Bayard Taylor -
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
-- Beatrix Potter -
There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
-- Ben Fountain -
There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
-- Ben Hogan -
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
-- Ben Okri -
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
-- Benjamin Haydon -
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority .... As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader....
-- Benjamin Tucker -
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
-- Benjamin Whichcote
