"That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging."
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"Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others."
"I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health."
"My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature."
"Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy."
"You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can."
"What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity."
"Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference."
"Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit."
"You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, you can honor the temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs, and treating it with dignity and love."
"Too perfect to be sexually attractive."
"Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans."
"Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding."
"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded."
"Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time."
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
"Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile"
"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."