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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man
Enough
Insight
Admit
Perfection
Limitations
His
Nearest
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
Anne Hathaway
Time
Good
Day
Be Happy
Struggle
Happy
Yourself
Pressure
Be Yourself
Long
Long Time
Think
Gave
Everyone
Find
Photographs
Some
About
More
Long Time Ago
Perfection
Look
Concept
Lot
Up
Very
Just
Where
Anymore
Wants
Interesting
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing
Design
Add
Take
He
Perfection
Knows
Left
Achieved
Away
Designer
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
John Piper
Must
Imperfections
Perfection
Redeemed
Redemption
Realize
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
Angela Watson
Best
Impossible
Strive
Perfection
Do Your Best
Just
Your
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Man
Own
About
Perfection
Sin
Conceiving
Him
Makes
His
Achieving
Which
Capable
Incapable
Original
Original Sin
Thing
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Art
Trifle
Trifles
Perfection
Make
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler
God
Man
Soul
Brilliant
Master
Single
Stars
Every
Complete
Cosmos
Perfection
Most
Himself
His
Goal
Human
Manifestation
Eternally
Speaks
Who
Human Soul
Fates
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Jerry Moran
Excellence
Perfection
End
End Product
Process
Product
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford
Life
Truth
Day
Beauty
Spent
Sight
Mystery
Perfection
Days
Contemplation
Without
Sound
Human
Human Life
Succession
Search
Fatal
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
Happiness
Sad
Sadness
Our
Never
Perfection
Most
Mixed
Taste
Successes
Fortunate
'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.
Drake
Me
You
Walk
Situation
Nothing
Else
Everything
Hundred
Top
Say
Possibly
Percent
More
Could
Perfection
Like
Know
Meter
Did
Done
Worked
Hard
Away
Right
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
Faith
Vision
Face
Practice
Some
Perfection
Perform
Over
Inviting
Obstacles
Again
Means
Act
Desire
Desired
Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
Patrick Lencioni
Service
Mistake
Honesty
Better
Made
Way
Has-Been
Perfection
Better Way
Clients
Demonstrate
Hire
Been
Providers
Expect
Than
Acknowledging
Apologizing
Transparency
Service Providers
Humbly
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
Day
Perfection
Intent
Present
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin
Life
Art
Mind
Beauty
Awareness
Think
Our
Minds
Eye
Mystery
Perfection
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
God
Spiritual
Bible
Word
Few
Nothing
Christian
Others
Favorite
Must
Obeyed
Select
Perfection
Exclusion
Well
Make
Passages
Understood
Than
Shortest
Less
Whole
Route
Everyone should get sacked at least once. It forces you to look at yourself... It is important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life. Perfection doesn't exist.
Anna Wintour
Life
You
Reality
Yourself
Important
Everyone
Once
Sacked
Perfection
Look
Forces
Because
Least
Exist
Get
Should
Setbacks
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music
Harmony
Our
Dream
Perfection
Heaven
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides
Mathematics
Physics
First
Lastly
Must
Logic
Proper
Various
Attain
He
Perfection
Study
Wishes
Metaphysics
Branches
Human
Order
Then
Next
Who
Therefore
Consequently
I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.
Marc Jacobs
Love
Natural
Ugly
Girl
Beauty
White
Teeth
Photoshop
Boring
Perfect
Imperfection
Perfection
Between
Like
Real
Versus
Just
Mean
Gap
Her
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Result
Care
Long
Our
Complex
Physical
Imperfection
Written
Perfection
Environment
Takes
Development
Exerted
Years
Brain
Intellectual
Intellectual Development
End
End Result
Human
Influences
Human Brain
Psychological
Us
Engine
Whoever
Program
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.
Ryan Holiday
Disappointment
Rarely
Only
Perfection
Perfectionism
Begets
Satisfaction
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
Pursuit
Perfection
Improvement
Often
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
Georges St-Pierre
Time
Myself
Fight
Training
Will
Fighter
Martial
Purpose
Never
He
Perfection
Between
Reach
Goal
Train
Artist
Difference
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger
Art
Own
Else
Kind
Some
Only
Perfection
Terms
Concern
His
Shoot
Artist
Anyone
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