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“That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.”

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Author:Armstrong Williams

“The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.”

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.”

Humans Doe Self Asks Progress Self Improvement Perfection Strive Improvement Persevere Complacent Despondent

Book:Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America

Source: Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America

“All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.”

World Humans Art Lasts Art Is Perfection Sake Flying Analysis Endeavor Vapor

Book:The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats

“False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.”

Knows Humans Doe Perfect Perfection Notes Piano Imperfection Perfectionism

Author:Vladimir Horowitz

“The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”

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Book:Zen

Source: Zen

“There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.”

Humans Ideas Evil Creation Perfection Creator Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.”

World Humans Body Spiritual Life Is Humanity Healing Perfection Sick Kingdoms Oneness Remedy Illumination Attainment Quickening Spiritual Perfection

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“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.”

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Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel