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“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.”

Play Games Sin Effort Virtue Draws Perfection Resistance

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.”

Play Inspiration Conversation Perfection Passing Passings Breeze Harps Sonatas

Author:Edmund Burke

“perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.”

Art Play Happens Enemy Divine Art Is Perfection Driven Working It Perfectionism

Book:Parachutes & kisses

Source: Parachutes & kisses

“If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?”

Ifs Men Needs Littles Two Play Character Shows Would Be Beautiful Night Fighting Roles Smart Perfection Absolutes Musical Sexy If I Could Sondheim

Author:Nancy Allen

“We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the sound connect internally, do they touch people's hearts, how creative are they.... ?”

People Knows Heart Doe Play Today Sound Creative Perfection Instruments Up And Down

Author:David Finckel

“Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Persons Doe Play Feelings Able Mother Turns Hurt Perfection Treats Behave Monkeys Visitors

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“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.”

Doe Play Perfect Levels Boys Practice Genius Perfection Series Fantastic Not Perfect Holmes Arcs Inhuman Methodology

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.”

World Giving Trying Mind Wells Persons Play Moments Memories Imagine Plans Movement Circumstances Perfection Mercy Spite World History

Author:Mary E. Pearson

“A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.”

Men Play Science Next Hard Work One Day Musician Perfection Instruments Chemistry Concerts Professors Good Work

Author:Louis Agassiz

“Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.”

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.”

Art Sometimes Play Culture Passion Easy Moral Masters Ought Perfection Ears Trade Dues Improvement Advertising Propose Public Good Subordination

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius

“But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.”

“That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.”

“The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.”

Art Different Play Moving Deals Seeing Air Movement Art Is Perfection Performances Sight Horse Enjoyment Comparison Ballet Finest Conservation Orchestra Exhibitions Finesse Equestrian Apex

Author:Nuno Oliveira