“Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“When we spend our lives waiting until we’re perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In so far as divine love beautifies our souls. And makes us pleasing to His divine Majesty, it is called grace; in… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to… — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
“ There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio.… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire;… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature,… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Research shows, however, that anxiety is linked to some aspects of perfectionism but not others. Specifically, while anxious people are concerned about… — Andrea Petersen Copy Share Image
“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
What people don't realize is that I've been trying to get to Bethlehem since I was four years old. By that, I… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
![“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where…” quote by Nikolai Berdyaev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/98b/nikolai-berdyaev-11501_absence_there-is-absolute-truth-in-anarchism-and_891275.jpg)
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