#perfected

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ↗

— Sam Abell

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Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #god #jesus-christ #perfected-man #religion

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. ↗

— Annette Bening

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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

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I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected. ↗

— Roberta Flack

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I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #descriptive #ideal #large #only

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

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