Quotes with perfection

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  • Les Brown One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Voltaire Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Owen Felltham Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
    Owen Felltham
    English writer (1602 - 1668)
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  • Doug Horton Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Joseph Hall Perfection is the child of time.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Albert Einstein Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Albert Pike Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Beatrice Potter Webb So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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  • William Somerset Maugham Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Armstrong Williams That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
    Individual Liberty Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Eugène Delacroix The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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