Quotes with perfection

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  • Agatha Christie Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Alan Cohen Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Salvador Dali Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • William Shakespeare He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Albrecht Durer I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Josh Billings If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
    The Critic as Artist (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Ann Landers Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Kahlil Gibran March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Henry Fuseli Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
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  • John Ruskin No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William Hazlitt No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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