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QUOTES ON PERFECTION

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache.... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

GEORGE ORWELL, Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun

There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior. If somebody is that perfect, how can you not think of yourself as being so imperfect next to him? I think people are perfect in their imperfections.

JESSICA ALBA, Maxim Magazine, Nov. 2003

Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to John Jay, Aug. 1, 1786

We see but in dreams the ideal.

HENRI CAZALIS, "Always"

The perfection of her face created a sense of emptiness--like a house with no curtains in the window.

Black Jack Point

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

TERESA OF AVILA, The Interior Castle

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

DEAN KOONTZ, Dark Rivers of the Heart

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

VINCE LOMBARDI


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