A Quote by Semir Zeki

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

Semir Zeki

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Creative Perfection Seeking

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Semir Zeki
British - Educator
Born: 1940

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

Lupita Nyong'o

Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

Radhanath Swami

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

Fethullah Gulen

Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.

Saint Francis de Sales

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Nikolai Berdyaev

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

Confucius

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

Jean Chretien

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Jaron Lanier

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Pope Benedict XVI

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

Ralph Barton Perry

Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

Arielle Ford

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

Swami Vivekananda

Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

Edmundo Desnoes

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

George Washington

I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "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." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

Drake

Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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