Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained… — Theodore Martin Copy Share Image
Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It’s called the pursuit of perfection. The pursuit is the idea that you’ll never be perfect in gymnastics but you can continue… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect,… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But more than just analysis, perfectionism offers us two distinct distractions: Hiding places Noble obstacles A hiding place is an activity you… — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and… — Angela Bettis Copy Share Image
I am not a perfect girl. My hair doesn't always stay in place & I spill things a lot. I'm pretty clumsy… — Camilia Copy Share Image
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped… — Patrick Ferriday Copy Share Image
Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim.… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us -… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
“Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
![“The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work…” quote by Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/edwin-markham-11431_aim_the-future-life-is-where-we-will-go-on-h_1418436.png)
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