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“What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.”

Creative Perfection Seeking

Author:Semir Zeki

“It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.”

World Done Order Vision Perfection Simplicity Seeking Confusion Endeavor

Author:Isaac Newton

“I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.”

Risk Losing Perfection Seeking Losing Everything

Author:Jean Chretien

“I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.”

Thinking Way Humans Perfect Perfection Affair Seeking

Author:Jaron Lanier

“You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful Personality.”

Thinking Way Want Inspirational Soul House Powerful Compassion Position Personality Perfection Bigger Seeking Attractive Mates More Money Way Of Thinking Imposing Humbleness

Book:The Seat of the Soul

Source: The Seat of the Soul

“What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are instinctively aware it's there, but you've got to be completely alert and quick and so deeply awake that it moves you.”

World Kind Moving Perfection Harmony Seeking Awake Shutters

Author:Sylvia Plachy

“Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.”

Ends Amount Creating Perfection Stress Disappointment Seeking Ridiculous

Author:Arielle Ford

“Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace”

Two Light Figures Perfection Towns Strive Seeking Calmness Repose Imitating Alms

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.”

Reality Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Accepting Our Lives Broken Letting Go Perfection Seeking Remove Flaws Spiritual Life Flawed

Book:Messy Spirituality

Source: Messy Spirituality

“The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.”

Humans Persons Perfection Seeking

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection”

Stills Greatness Musician Romantic Perfection Affection Hip Hop Seeking Affected Rapper Yearning Seekers Contradictory Perfectionist Contradicting Love And Affection Pursuit Of Perfection Rap Song

Author:Tupac Shakur

“We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.”

“Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.”

Men Literature Perfection Excellence Strive Seeking Mediocre Striving For Excellence

Author:Edwin Louis Cole

“Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.”

Men Wells Looks Said Ideas Animal Higher Perfection Raises Salvation Seeking Look Up

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.”

Men Science Can Do Missing Perfection Seeking Accomplishment Unattainable

Book:Puritanism and Democracy

Source: Puritanism and Democracy