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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. – Marie Curie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
...man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery... – Wilbur Wright	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have. – Django Reinhardt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
First, technical perfection as something natural. Second, an insight into the development of the piano sound, as perfected by the pianist-composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, composers who understood the piano both as a human voice ... and as an orchestra with which they could produce a variety of colors. Third, the need to learn how to use every aspect of our new instruments, which are richer in sound. Fourth, the importance of differentiation. – Ivo Pogorelić	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Even the mind of the wise man who labours for perfection is carried away by the vehement insistence of the senses, O son of Kunti. (2:60) – Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We must always strive to achieve perfection, even when we know perfection is not entirely achievable. – Boris Malagurski	added by anonymous 11 years ago
When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is just perfection and nothing to fill the air. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me. – Tom Carter	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind?s deformity. – R Chamberlain	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The life of man is the incessant walk of nature, wherein every moment is a step towards death. Even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay. Every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The hooting fowler seldom takes much game. When a man has a project in his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection. He is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have, for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, a mock and scorn will follow him. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you. – Mary Ross	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo Buonarroti	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker	added by anonymous 13 years ago
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. – Thomas H. Huxley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. – Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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