"I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be."
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"Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation."
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"Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart."
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"Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection."
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"I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection."
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"Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once."
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"Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection."
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"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."
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"Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace"
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"Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?"
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"Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost."
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"No barber shaves so close but another finds worke."
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"Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it."
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"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility."
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"The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart."
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"To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often."
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"Done is better than perfect."
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"A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection"
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"Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can."
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"Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection."
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