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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Perfection, Truth

  Tags in Human
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  Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Failure, Perfection, Success, Work

  Tags in Learning, Loyalty, Persistence

• Jazz stands for freedom. It’s supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Freedom

• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Perfection

• The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

  George Will

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Pursuit

• It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Perfection

• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Point, Achieved

• Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Topics in Perfection

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

  Sir Walter Scott

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Reason
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  We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Topics in Joy, Perfection, Success

  Tags in Mixed, Sadness, Happiest, Perfect

• Often, when you’ve reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it’s hard to remember that.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Topics in Achievement, Perfection

  Tags in Yourself

• Ballet’s image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

  Shana Alexander

  Topics in Perfection
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  Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

  Salvador Dalí

  Topics in Fear, Perfection

  Tags in Reach

• Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Passion

• A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Expect, Moment

• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in People

• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Fashionable

• Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

  William Shawn

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Process

• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason – the law which is perfection of reason.

  Edward Coke

  Topics in Life, Perfection

  Tags in Law

• There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

  Charles Buck

  Topics in God, Perfection

  Tags in Person, Without