#perfect

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#being #beings #change #day #elders

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. ↗

— Charles Edison

#conscience #except #i #make #my own

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. ↗

— Franz Boas

#currents #darwin #due #helped #hope

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#created #different #different things #distract #help

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#her #long #look #own #perfectly

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#best #concord #each #expressing #mind

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#perfect #perfecting #require #way

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. ↗