Top 1200 Progress Not Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

No libraries, no progress.

Every person is flawed. Do you think perfection exists? You, me, everyone - we have strengths and shortcomings; that's what makes us human.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

Change is not progress.

Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

If you're not learning, you don't progress.

I'm a work in progress.

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

There is no progress in art.

Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goal-oriented. We must have goals to make progress, encouraged by keeping records . . . as the swimmer or the jumper or the runner does . . . Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured. . . .Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

No paradox, no progress.

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

If it is not a mess, it is not progress.

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

Progress is a choice.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.

The Prophet, peace be on him, presents all the possibilities of the human state in perfection. Now, a part of that of course is love of God.

I'm amazed at my progress.

No competition, no progress.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Not all change is progress.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

All progress is experimental.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

Movement isn't progress.