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“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.”

“In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.”

Character Together Names Quality Moral Virtue Groups Development Balance Battle Perfection Intellect Active Passive Assemblage Great Battle Battle Of Life

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.”

Order Lines Greater Achieve Movement Balance Perfection Repeats Dancer Again And Again Repetition Motifs Degas

Author:Kenneth Clark

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.”

People Needs Ends Body Government Balance Perfection Strive Not Perfect Ecosystems Imbalance

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.”

Has Beens States Whole Lost Healing Balance Perfection Restoring

Author:Andrew Weil

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.”

Mind Humans Desire Passion Human Beings Ought Balance Perfection Calm Peaceful Preserves Tranquility Transitory Peaceful Mind

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of Balance. All of man's ills are caused by toxic poisons generated in his body through unbalance affecting his power of control over the functions of his electric body. Man, as an extension of God, is creator of his own electric body. He is master of his electric body to the extent of his knowing the Light of God in him. ... God says to man: »What I do, ye shall do«, but man is unbelieving for long ages.”

Men Long Body Light Age Universe Knowing Masters Balance Perfection Function Creator Dues Poison Toxic Electric Extensions Knowing God

Author:Walter Russell

“I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.”

Belief Balance Perfection Balls Catching

Author:Carol Bartz

“Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.”

Use Hands Brain Meditation Balance Perfection Golf Concentration

Author:Celine Dion

“Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.”