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«In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.»
Author: Alice Walker
| About:
Beauty,
Nature,
Perfection
| Keywords:
bent, bents, contorted, Everything is Beautiful, perfect, The Bends, trees, ways, Weird, weirder, weirdest
«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.»
Author: Barbra Streisand
(Actress, Producer, Singer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
details, obsession, obsessive, perfectionist, perfectionists, searching
«If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?»
«In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Living,
Perfection,
Trying
| Keywords:
go on, involved, perfectionism
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
active, ago, appreciable, be active, effect, exertion, humanity, perfectability
«His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Houses,
Perfection
| Keywords:
food for thought, good story, liked, mixture, mixtures, pleasant, singing, sitting, story, telling, Telling Stories
«It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.»
«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»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, deity, disorderly, manifestly, obscure, permit, work permit
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