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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.
We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.
Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.
Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.
I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.
I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.