Quotes About Perfection

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The perfect is not simply the ideal, as a perfect marriage is not simply a storybook meeting of souls. It is rather the optimal incarnation of spirit, the point at which the presence achieves maximal concreteness and the actual lets the presence shine through most clearly. Perhaps that, too, is the meaning of the Cross.

Every work of art falls short of what the artist envisioned. It is precisely that gap between their intention and their execution that opens up the door for the next work.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

Whitefield came to a realization that would have far-reaching effects. He saw that the Bible didn't teach that we must work harder at becoming perfect and holy, but that we must instead throw ourselves on God's mercy. Moral perfection wasn't the answer: Jesus was the answer. Jesus had been morally perfect and we weren't supposed to save ourselves—we were supposed to ask him to save us.

He saw that the Bible didn't teach that we must work harder at becoming perfect and holy, but that we must instead throw ourselves on God's mercy. Moral perfection wasn't the answer: Jesus was the answer. Jesus had been morally perfect and we weren't supposed to save ourselves—we were supposed to ask him to save us.

Paradoxalmente, quando a busca por perfeição é substituída pela disposição de experimentar e adaptar a ideia original, o resultado final é um produto mais perfeito.

Contrary to traditional product development, which usually involves a long, thoughtful incubation period and strives for product perfection, the goal of the MVP is to begin the process of learning, not end it. Unlike a prototype or concept test, an MVP is designed not just to answer product design or technical questions. Its goal is to test fundamental business hypotheses.

She was honey-sweet and perfect... But that was just the surface layer; deeper there was more: darkness and sadness and pain

It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became a reflected image of perfection. He set poets the task of writing philosophically, not only in the sense of giving instruction, but in the sense of striving, by the imitation of appearance, to arrive at its true essence and to show its insufficiency measured by the beauty of the Idea.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Therefore the demiurge made the world in the shape of a sphere, giving it that figure which of all is the most perfect and the most equal to itself.

What does knowing there's a God have to do with our pride problem? Only God is perfect. If pride is an effort to maintain the illusion of perfection, it's also an indication that we want to sit on the throne. We prefer the worship of others instead of connection to them. We'd rather be adored than be known. Humility is required to love and be loved as your authentic self. Pride fights for fake relationships built on hollow praise.

Perfect!" mewed Mistyfoot.

There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed.

The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

I cannot bring myself to write for the flute, as this instrument is too limited and imperfect.

Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.