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“I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.”

Talent Youth Materials Perfection Hollywood Claims Lays

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.”

Art Light Speak White Sun Materials Perfection Painter Shade Yellow Patents

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“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

“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.”

Perfect Pleasure Moral Materials Source Taste Perfection Attractive Purity Faculty Receiving Oar

Author:John Ruskin

“It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.”

“As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.”

Thinking Mind Long Two Universe Perfect Conditions Divine Materials Perfection Parallels Alignment Parallel Universe

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!”

Perfect Knowing Materials Tomorrow Eternal Discovery Perfection Debate Yesterday Perfectionist Homage Proceeding

Author:Oliver $

“When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.”

People Trying Ideas Self Happiness Cases Pieces Missing Materials Buddhism Development Letting Go Essentials Perfection Strategy Goods Doomed Self Development Accumulation Completion

Author:Mark Epstein

“Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.”

Men Perfect Position Greatness Materials Hero Discovery Perfection Infinite Every Man Exalted

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.”

Knows Wells Goal Materials Confidence Comfortable Perfection Not Perfect

Book:Confessions of a Public Speaker

Source: Confessions of a Public Speaker

“The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.”

Want Life Trying Helping Body Reality Can Do Forget Materials Yoga Perfection Surface Practicals Here And Now Can Do Something

Book:Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom