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“Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Moments Clear Perfection Illness

Author:Tom Ford

“Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.”

Way Art Done Knowing Clear Particular Theory Concern Perfection Performances Oneself Practicals Explanation Occupation Calculating Pertinent

Author:Gersonides

“No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.”

Needs Made Important Given Clear Reflection Perfection Roots Conviction Deeper Noble Pursuit Resolution Happy Life Bearable

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.”

Art Moments Wonder Clear Risk Willing Masters Calling Highest Standing Perfection Pursuit Noses Goddess Limbs Badges Lavender

Author:Roald Dahl

“When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.”

People Ideas Real Purpose Perfect Clear Perfection Cooking Strive Acknowledge Making People Happy Perfect Food

Author:Thomas Keller

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

Source: Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems

“Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.”

Problem Clear Perfection Clean Precision

Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.”

Found Chance Clear Perfection Regard Moved Intention Instinct Intuition Cells Mathematical Composition Equations Precision Inevitability Ravens Mathematical Equations

Author:Maurice Ravel

“I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.”

Mind Art Made Facts Perfect Clear Painting Perfection Made It

Book:Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond

Source: Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond

“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.”

Source: Karma Yoga

“Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.”

Ifs Would Be Form Individual Loss Existence Consciousness Clear Gains Perfection Species Individuality Careful Limitation Preservation

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)