"A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection."
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"Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying."
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"Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented."
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"In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations."
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"When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins."
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"Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving."
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"Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action."
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"The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority."
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"Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn."
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"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
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"Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?"
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"Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen."
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"Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection."
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"the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour."
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"Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away."
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"The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes."
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"Anything worth doing is worth doing well."
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
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"This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate."
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"[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection."
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