#perfection

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ↗

— Aristotle

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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. ↗

— Erica Jong

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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. ↗

— Pir Vilayat Khan

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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