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Perfection Quotes
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
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"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
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"Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill."
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"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
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"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done."
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"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
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"Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection."
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"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."
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"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."
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"Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely."
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"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."
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"I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years."
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"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
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"Drop all ideas of becoming someone; you are already perfect."
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"Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved."
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"The only measurement I understand is perfection."
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"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."
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"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."
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"Perfection is born of imperfection."
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"If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections."
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"When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible."
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"If you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong."
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"One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."
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"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."
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"After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot " how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point."
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"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."
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"Be not perfect, be just and kind."
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