Perfection Quotes - Page 3

Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.

This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don’t be afraid of that.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with the products of this science to its states and nations, is now bankrupt and in decline.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

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?

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.