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Perfection Quotes
Most Famous Perfection Quotes of All Time!
Perfection is treated here as both an ideal and a trap. One line describes the constant pressure a ballerina feels to never appear less than flawless, while another calls discretion the truest form of reason guiding daily life. See Art quotes for related themes.
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
- Mistake
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The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
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I'm chasing perfection.
- Instead
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Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
- Never
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
- Good Qualities
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Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.
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So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
- Nov 07, 2020
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struggle with perfection.
A further line ties true honor to pursuing one's fullest, most virtuous nature, while another admits that the pursuit itself can quietly eat up far more hours than it deserves. Browse Good quotes or I Am quotes for more.