“Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.” IfsFeelsRealCharacterValuesFictionWorryWeekDevelopmentReaderWalkingPerfectionStoresManageGroceriesCharacter DevelopmentAisleGrocery Stores Author:J. Courtney Sullivan
“As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.” WorldMindLongTwoMomentsBodyMotherWalksFeetWalkingPerfectionFilledWingsSticksCirclesTricksStaringClimbingJumpingJoyousGrandeurConquerorWondrousOmnipotenceToddlerTiptoesTwirling Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."” ThinkingImportantConsciousnessPracticeStreetsWalkingEnlightenmentPerfectionBullshitDoing Nothing Author:Amanda Palmer
“It's the ultimate for me not to see how it's made. I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is made. I used to be a student at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris, and once I got to go to a Saint Laurent couture show. Everyone was always talking about how fabulous the tailoring was, but I was transfixed by this one particular dress. It was just a piece of fabric, but as the model was walking, you didn't know how she got into it, how it closed, where the seams were, and that, for me, was perfection. It stayed with me as a lifelong vision.” VisionStudentsWalkingPerfectionUltimateSaintFabulousVulgarLifelong Author:Tomas Maier
“We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.” EndsSometimesMomentsHandsSeemsRunningPastJoyNextLostPerfectLaughingStreetsHigherWalkingRight NowPerfectionOppositesStealingPassingPassingsBlockClimbsSwingsFar AwayMarsPlaygroundsHolding HandsStreamingCollidePerfect Moments Author:Audrey Niffenegger
“I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsPerfectClassFashionDangerousFineWalkingTastePerfectionCoachesRestaurantsContradictionMcdonaldsFirst Class Author:Alber Elbaz
“The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.” LongStillsWalksPathJourneySkyMovementWalkingEssentialsPerfectionSimplicityWanderHikingTrekkingStrollingSaunteringHorizontal Author:Philippe Petit