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“My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect, perfection is impossible but every day you get closer and that's what I want . Every day I want to get better than I was the day before. I want to use every second of my life, every time I have in my life to make me a better fighter. It's more than a job it's a way of living.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.”

Ifs Perfection Technique Invisible

Book:Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture

Source: Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture

“The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.”

People Ifs Film Emotional Perfection Miracle Technique Awe Again And Again Great Film Emotional Life

Author:Ali MacGraw

“Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.”

Art Practice Economy Study Perfection Technique Salesmanship

Author:James Cash Penney

“Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!”

Way Ability Teacher Perfection Dance Technique Cheat Deficiency Ballet Class

Author:Jiri Kylian

“My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.”

Thinking Needs Should Writing Ends Sometimes Life Is Song Enemy Perfection Technique Crafts Songwriting Messy Good Writers Loose Ends

Author:Patterson Hood

“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”

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Author:Socrates

“THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, the source of unlimited techniques. The square stands for solidity, the basis of applied control.”

Should Mind Body Energy Generations Source Perfection Bases Technique Circles Squares Stable Serenity Unlimited Posture Triangles Solidity

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.”

Past Language Mistake Generations Perfection Technique Programming New Generation Programming Languages

Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

“We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.”

Source: Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)

“There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.”

May Soul Done Today Perfection Technique Furniture Being Done Lifeless

Author:Sam Maloof