Top 1200 Perfection And Imperfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

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.

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.

At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.

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

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

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.

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

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.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

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

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

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.

If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.

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

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

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

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

Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.

Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

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

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!

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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

... 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.

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

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

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

You can tell when someone on TV who's supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit or tailored to perfection.

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

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

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.

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

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.

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.

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.

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

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

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

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.

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

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

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

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