#perfection

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection. ↗

— Maurice Greene

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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#came #down #end #get #goal

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#dr #general #imperfection #intelligence #method

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#ever #except #perfection #stealth #themselves

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#become #break #cycle #doing #embrace

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. ↗

— William Hurt

#over #perfection #second #theater

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#archetypes #changed #completely #decades #even

Perfection doesn't exist. ↗

— Andres Iniesta

#perfection

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#better #could #feel #i #i always