Affair Quote by Jaron Lanier Download Open image “I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.” — Jaron Lanier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Humans Nature of man Perfect Perfection Seeking Thinking Way
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
... every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose. — Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Copy Share Image
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept. — Jonny Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that… — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience… If there are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image
