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“Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.”

Knows Running Ideals Train Competence

Author:George H. W. Bush

“About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.”

Years Running Courses Five Tree Fields Percent Ideals Years Ago Trials Five Years Nests Ratios Hawks Acres Timber Quails

Author:Rick Carlisle

“The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.”

Character Running Ideals Attainment

Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

“We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: "If this is what you want, try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician". In practice he is apt to say: "try this; if it works that will justify it".”

“The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”

Mind Running Flower Ideals Garden Weed Flower Garden

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“My favorite thing is to be naked, which is why I always live in remote areas. My ideal is to wake in the morning and run around the meadows naked. I think it's a good idea to live in harmony with nature.”

Thinking Ideas Running Morning Areas Ideals Harmony My Favorite Naked Good Ideas Favorites Things Meadows

Author:Daryl Hannah

“The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.”

Source: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays