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| En god vän som pekar ut fel och brister bör bemötas som om han avslöjat en hemlig skatt. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Perfektionism är förtryckarens röst. | Anne Lamott (1954-) |
| Sanning är en så stor perfektion att om Gud skulle göra sig synlig för människor skulle han välja ljus som sin kropp och sanning som sin själ. | Pythagoras (569 f.Kr.-475 f.Kr.) |
| People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it | Edith Schaeffer |
| The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it | Gerard Groote |
| The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes | Haridas Chaudhuri |
| Perfectionism is slow death | Hugh Prather |
| Perfection is the child of time | Joseph Hall (1574-1656) |
| Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart | Kelly Millar |
| 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. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. | Martha Graham (1894-1991) |
| Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. | Michael Caine (1933-) |
| Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government? | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. | Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) |
| Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure. | White Eagle |
| I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. | Barbra Streisand (1942-) |
| The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything - is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy | Billie Jean King (1943-) |
| Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. | Michelangelo (1475-1564) |
| Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. | Owen Felltham |
| Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. | Shana Alexander (1925-2005) |
| I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson [Carson Daly] can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can. | Tara Reid (1975-) |
| Be intent upon the perfection of the present day | William Law |
| They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. | Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) |
| Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it | Edith Schaeffer |
| I have no faith in human perfectability. 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. | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished | Chinese Proverbs |
| 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 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul | Pythagoras (569 f.Kr.-475 f.Kr.) |
| Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| 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. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. | Martha Graham (1894-1991) |
| 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. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. | Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) |
| Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. | Anna Quindlen (1953-) |
| The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything - is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy | Billie Jean King (1943-) |
| "The Lesson": Yes, my fretting, Frowning child, I could cross The room to you More easily. But I’ve already Learned to walk, So I make you Come to me. Let go now— There! You see? Oh, remember This simple lesson, Child, And when In later years You cry out With tight fists And tears— “Oh, help me, God—please.”— Just listen And you’ll hear A silent voice: I would, child, I would. But it’s you, Not I, Who needs to try Godhood. | Carol Lynn Pearson |
| Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times. | George Savile (1633-) |
| You would attain to the divine perfection, And yet not turn your back upon the world | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. | John Updike (1932-) |
| Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| Look to the next world for perfection, look at this one for its opposite. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| A beautiful thing is never perfect. | Proverb |
| The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Done is better than perfect. | Scott Allen (1948-) |
| Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. | Sir Henry Royce |
| You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean -- | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| To their right praise and true perfection! | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |