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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
Ideas, dreams, and goals morph as we experience life, so I'm not sure I can look at it like there's something I haven't yet achieved since I will always be striving for something more.
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
I'm fully aware that Qatar are striving to become one of the leading sporting nations and they have big plans for football. Winning the honour of hosting the 2022 World Cup is the best possible proof of their intentions.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
I think that the things that are interesting sometimes, when you're striving for a sound, you just get it wrong 'cause of your own limitations. That's when you get something kind of original.
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.
My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.
Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football - when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.
Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.
I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.
Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.
A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.
Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.
My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.
Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
I want wins and losses to matter. That is the point of wrestling, everyone is striving to be a champion and your stature in the company is marked by your win-loss record.
Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.
Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.
Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.
Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.
