Top 1200 Perfection And Imperfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

?Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise.

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

The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

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

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

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

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

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