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“I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.”

Thinking Kind Character Creating Perfection Defects Crippled

Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.”

Said Spirit Simple Talking Doubt Too Much Worst Holy Speech Perfection Faults Tongue Gentle Holy Spirit Attachment Virtuous Defects Charitable Amiable Talking Too Much

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.”

Ifs Shows Bigs Sun Written Regret Huge Broken Kings Scene Perfection Spots Greek Defects Statues Monstrous Lear

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.”

World Perfect Perfection Defects Hypocrite Exhibits Perfect Woman

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.”

Ifs Littles Two Care Wish Voice Return One Day Hundred Advantage Perfection Take Care Defects Flattery Flatterer

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“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

“The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.”

People Perfect Quiet Perfection Gentle Imperfection Imperfect Defects Perfectionist Perfection And Imperfection Being Imperfect

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.”

Human Nature Humility Perfection Graves Dull Defects Perfectionism Perfection And Imperfection Dull Minds

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”

Perfect Inspiring Quiet Perfection Criticism Praise Excellence Complaining Gentle Imperfection Imperfect Defects Flattery Perfectionist Perfection And Imperfection Being Imperfect

Author:Joseph Addison

“Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.”

Shows Order Nature Perfection Defects God Image

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.”

Humans Perfection Pessimism Defects

Book:On Human Nature: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: On Human Nature: Top of Schopenhauer