“Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.” MatterCharacterActionGrowsLevelsPayAttentionOur LivesEventsDevelopmentPerfectionPay AttentionMinorsHigh LevelCharacter Development Author:Zelig Pliskin
“An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.” LevelsImagineHigherPerfectionImaginary Book:Gravity and Grace Source: Gravity and Grace
“When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.” MeanProcessLevelsQualityPhotographyPerfectionRepresentation Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
“When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.” MindMadeRealityLevelsSubjectsObjectsPerfectionUltimateDiscriminationDistinctionCommunionWondrous Book:The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.” DoePlayPerfectLevelsBoysPracticeGeniusPerfectionSeriesFantasticNot PerfectHolmesArcsInhumanMethodology Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.” WantWritingFilmLiteratureLossPleasureLevelsRiskDangerPerfectionTheaterMusicalFlightImperfectionEngagementExecutionMarginsTangibleImplicitBest Literature Author:Julio Cortazar
“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness” LevelsPerfectionPauses Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically” PeopleFirstsMeanPersonsMadeAgeIndividualLevelsMillionsTechnologyModernSubjectsHighestPerfectionInstrumentsRadioCommandMade ItOrgansDictatorshipEstatesLowestTelephonesEmployedEightyTransmitModern Technology Author:Albert Speer
“I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.” IfsWayMightAbleNightSleepLevelsPlansCrazyPerfectionExcellenceStriveAccomplishSignificantAssaultHigh Level Author:Charlie Trotter
“People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.” PeopleKnowsGivingHardWholeMotivationalLevelsEffortKnow HowTaughtDemandStandardsPerfectionRaisesExcellenceExtremesBodybuildingPerfectionistBest Effort Author:Robert Cheeke
“I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.” LittlesLastsPerfectPleasureLevelsPiecesMinesPhotographyPerfectionPhotographer Author:Chuck Close