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“We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.”

Trying Wells Real Joy Hate Perfect Enemy Worry Doubt Cry Anxiety Perfection Anxiety And Worry

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.”

Wells Light Quality Morning Late Perfection Seasons Atmosphere Afternoon Gardener Nuance Early Morning Small Changes Late Afternoon

Author:Susan Hill

“Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.”

Ifs Knows Wells Art Self Artist Achieve Advice Proud Limits Achievement Perfection Be Proud Self Confident

Author:Barbara De Angelis

“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.”

Want Humans Wells Children Spiritual Mother Easy Birth Achievement Labor Perfection Ultimate Injury Pregnancy Childbirth Human Love Birth Of A Child

Author:Grantly Dick-Read

“My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.”

Knows Wells Goal Materials Confidence Comfortable Perfection Not Perfect

Book:Confessions of a Public Speaker

Source: Confessions of a Public Speaker

“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”

Wells Littles Done Deals Perfection Excellence Plato Well Done

Book:The Plato Collection [47 Books]

Source: The Plato Collection [47 Books]

“He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.”

Way Wells Moving Knowing Air Special Perfection Distance Satisfaction Range Aviation Touching Airplane Solitary Great Aviation

Book:A Gift of Wings

Source: A Gift of Wings

“Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with one hand the spiritual edifice which is rising by the labors of the other. But to succeed well in this, resistance should be begun while the passions are yet weak; for after they are thoroughly rooted and grown up, there is scarcely any remedy.”

Should Wells Use Hands Spiritual Passion Wish Progress Particular Succeed Labor Perfection Weak Resistance Rising Allowing Rooted Remedy Diligence Edifice

Author:St. Vincent

“Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products”

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Author:Niklaus Wirth

“Perfection is lots of little things done well.”

Wells Littles Done Perfection Little Things Things Done

Author:Fernand Point

“God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name. Whatever we happen to make-not only in the visual arts, but in all the arts-we should make it as well as we can, offering God our very best.”

Should Wells Art Happens Names Building Standards Perfection Careful Visuals Instruction Offering Visual Art Exodus

Author:Philip Graham Ryken

“Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.”

Wells Pride Perfection Sportsmanship

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.”

Inspirational Wells Process Perfect Knowing Perfection Excellence Be Good Gentleman Just Being Nothing Is Perfect

Author:Vince Lombardi

“A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.”