It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature
Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.
My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God's will as possible; to live up to the highest light I have. I'm still not perfect, of course, but I grow daily. . . I am able to do everything I am called to do, and I do know what I need to know to do my part in the Divine Plan. And I do experience the happiness of living in harmony with God's will for me.
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Perfection is a moving target
One has to set high standards. . . I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.
If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing Itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are creating the creation of You on this planet
Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart.
As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.