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“That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.”

Giving Humans Can Do Models Perfection Strive Athlete Great Athlete

Author:Armstrong Williams

“The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.”

Different Whole Form Individual Type Models Ideals Perfection Species Sculpture Defective Assembling

Book:The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students

Source: The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students

“We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.”

Failing Teaching Achieve Example Models Perfection Imperfection Competence

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Of course sportsmen and women are not only great role models, they are great fashion models too, as they are at the peak of physical perfection.”

Courses Roles Fashion Models Men And Women Perfection Role Models Sportsman Great Fashion Fashion Model Great Role Models

Author:Giorgio Armani

“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”

Feels Wells Kind Seems Quality Models Ideals Perfection Mortals Contentment

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.”

Way Mean Ideas Facts Form Order Term Highest Models Perfection Musical Simplicity Folks Artistic Melody Embodiment Brevity

Author:Bela Bartok

“For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.”

Children Mother Conditions Type Models Daughter Perfection Mistress Representing

Author:Alexandre Dumas