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“Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.”

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.”

Way Mind Doe Ability Principles Perfection Essence Open Mind Basic Principles

Author:Ed Parker

“We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.”

Giving Born Ability Exercise Skills Capable Perfection Faculty

Book:Essay on human understanding concluded. Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common-place-book

Source: Essay on human understanding concluded. Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common-place-book

“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

Source: The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

“[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.”

Heart May Whole Opportunity Ability Effort Honest Ordinary Perfection Endure Patient Allowing Royal One Word Transient

Author:Frederick Douglass

“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”

Ability Talent Empathy Perfection Aspire No Empathy

Book:A Fire Upon The Deep

Source: A Fire Upon The Deep

“If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.”

“Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!”

Way Ability Teacher Perfection Dance Technique Cheat Deficiency Ballet Class

Author:Jiri Kylian

“God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.”

Giving Children Evil Prayer Ability Answers Goodness Perfection Our Children Bounds Willingness Our Prayers Exceed Infirmity Necessary Things

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”

Love Able Ability Love You Lovers Ten Perfection Performances Swear Reserves One Love

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these words! All of their efforts are focused toward the upward movement rather than the perfection of their artistic ability. Neither do they allow anyone to anything to stand in the way of reaching their goals. This includes wives, families, friends and their children. They are prepared to pay the very high price that success demands.”

“Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind.”

Source: Works

“A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.”

Knows Men Wells Art Done Joy Turns Ability Deals Half Conditions Pride Perfection Satisfaction Finished Artistic Smallest Superficial Joy Of Life Well Done Completeness

Author:William Matthews

“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.”

Men Doe Body Hands Lying Hours Differences Ability Perfection Weight Eternity Size Blow Concentration Sublime

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.”

Heart Soul Whole Lying Ability Principles Perception Perfection Organisms

Author:Aristotle