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“If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Want Inspirational Mean Buddhism Higher Perfection Aspire Slime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”

Men Mean Doe Science Nature Loses Natural Secret Findings Perfection Curiosity Appearance Wisest Wisest Man

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.”

Mean Next Perfection Canvas

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.”

Mean Social Process Results Impossible Economic Perfection Available Instance Goods Quantity Inherent Irrational Unlimited Constraints

Author:Thomas Sowell

“At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.”

Mean Artist Perfection Ultimate Disaster Reminders Perfectionism Fussing

Book:A Painter of Our Time

Source: A Painter of Our Time

“And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.”

Trying Mean Joy Laughing Perfection Add Make Me Laugh

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Ideas Young Humanity Goal Careers Offers Dignity Perfection Convinced Profession Excellent Young Man Great Men Scholar Sage Scope Imaginative Consonants

Author:Karl Marx

“Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.”

Mean Christian Grace Seeing Perfection Ultimate Invention Realization Priests Paradox Imperfection Assurance Theologian Apprehension Bearable Consoling

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.”

Mean Process Levels Quality Photography Perfection Representation

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy