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«People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it»
Author: Edith Schaeffer
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
insisted, insisting, looking for, perfection, throw, throwing away, thrown-away, throw away
«Perfectionism is slow death»
Author: Hugh Prather
(Author, Lecturer, Minister)
| About:
Death and dying,
Perfection
| Keywords:
perfectionism
«Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Advertising,
Age,
Disillusionment,
Life,
Living,
Perfection
| Keywords:
advertisement, age of, An Age, disillusion, disillusioned, perpetually, spread
«Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?»
Author: Richard J. Daley
(Mayor)
| About:
God,
Government,
Perfection
| Keywords:
betrayed, denied, disciples, doubted, lords
«Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?»
«Look to the next world for perfection, look at this one for its opposite.»
«Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it»
«Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Perfection,
Possessions,
Power,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
driven, e'en, external, increasingly, insatiable, materialistic, nowadays, possessions, reaching, striving, vast, zenith
«No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Perfection,
Work
| Keywords:
Good Work, misunderstanding
«Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
breaking, involves, perfection
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