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42 quotesPleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Excellence
Aristotle
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Light
Matthew Arnold
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Perfection
St. Augustine
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Motivation
Harriet Braiker
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Perfection
William Ellery Channing
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Perfection
Pierre Corneille
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Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
Perfection
Salvador Dali
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Arts and Artists
Eugene Delacroix
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Perfection
Eugene Delacroix
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Confusion
Albert Einstein
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.
Age and Aging
Albert Einstein
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Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
Perfection
Chris Evert
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Change
Owen Felltham
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When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
Perfection
Geoffrey F. Fisher
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Perfection is the child of time.
Perfection
Joseph Hall
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
Perfection
William Hazlitt
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Perfection
Doug Horton
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Goodness
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Christians and Christianity
Samuel Johnson
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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Ideals and Idealism
Pir Vilayat Khan
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Genius
Arthur Koestler
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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
Time and Time Management
William Law
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
Men and Women
D. H. Lawrence
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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
Perfection
W. Somerset Maugham
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Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
Detail
Michelangelo
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun