Top 1200 Progress Not Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Ive seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, theres nothing closer to God than that.

I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.

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

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

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

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

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.

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

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 was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

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

I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.

I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both have the same character of being an imaginative speculation. I say all this because I want very much to talk about the human side of discovery and progress, and it seems to me terribly important to say this in an age in which most non-scientists are feeling a kind of loss of nerve.

The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

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

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

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

Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

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.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

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.

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.

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

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

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.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

When you are in a sport, there is a plan to reach for perfection in a certain week in August and it gives you a focus in life and in everything you do around it.

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

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.

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

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

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

When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.

Not every pass-rush move is going to work to perfection, so therefore, you've got to figure out what's best for you.

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

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

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.