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“Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.”

Ideas Artist Approach Perfection

Author:Odilon Redon

“Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.”

Trying Success Turns Winning Attention Careers Fields Buddhism Approach Perfection Organization Playing Fields Business Organization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?”

May Soul Lines Possibility Approach Draws Standards Perfection Eternity Creator Mathematical Touching Perpetual

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.”

Kind Littles Soul Suffering Choices Forget Deals Lord Sacrifice Demand Approach Understood Perfection Saint Oneself I Realized Our Lord Sanctity

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.”

Approach Perfection Stealth

Book:Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

“There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.”

Mind Kind Two Ideas Film Process Directors Elements Approach Perfection Thrive Internals Filmmaking Harvest Defects Variation Hitchcock

Author:Walter Murch

“There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.”

“What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.”

Thinking Life Art Matter Simple Share Approach Highest Perfection And Love Lovely Generous Provoking Faith And Love Kindliness

Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.”

Ifs Men Want Mean States Seems Age Desire Peace Goal Talent Development Approach Perfection Safety Confusion Welfare Sincerely

Author:Albert Einstein

“Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.”

Quality Theory Approach Perfection Simplicity Logical Aesthetic Scientific Theory

Author:Albert Einstein

“Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.”

Art Reality Artist Approach Art Is Perfection Mere Definitions Imperfect Untrue Unfaithful

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.”

Heart Kind Done Artist Blood Approach Perfection Surgeons Coldness Splashing

Book:Conversations with Ernest Gaines

Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines

“What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach each element of my programs with perfection. As Im preparing, I build momentum and confidence until I reach a peak of concentration. It is the moment that I feel my best. Then I can bring out one hundred percent, which makes me satisfied with myself. This is my goal.”

Want Feels I Can Moments Able Goal Acting Skills Elements Approach Percent Hundred Program Perfection Musical Satisfied Staying Concentration Interpretation Preparing Momentum

Author:Yuna

“I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.”

Ifs Believe Humans Spiritual Progress Mountain Approach Dignity Perfection Painful Human Life Rough Thieves Trails Retarded Spiritual Progress Mountain Peaks

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces