Top 1200 Pursuit Of Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I look forward to working across the aisle in pursuit of our common goal to get Kansas' fiscal house in order.

Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

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

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

Until the ayatollahs that run Iran give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons, we cannot and should not ease the pressure on the regime to do so.

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

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

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

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

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

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

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

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.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists, lighting crew, etc.

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

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

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

Playing a superhero isn't interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!

I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.