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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Perfection

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
It is no crime not to be perfect
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
No one becomes perfect, but some become great.
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
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.
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Perfection is the child of time.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

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