#perfect

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. ↗

— Periander

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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. ↗

— Edward Coke

#common law #else #itself #law #life

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ↗

— Richard Courant

#aesthetic #analysis #basic #basic elements #construction

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything. ↗

— Cindy Crawford

#i #perfect #try

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#confidence #consolation #doubt #granted #greater

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#back #decathlon #dissatisfied #draws #events

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that? ↗

— Anthony Edwards

#being #complications #did #family #gain

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#condemn #condemns #forgives #god #law

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect--they are much more interesting. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#imperfection #beauty

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#american #believe #complexion #dreams #founding