#perfection

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others. And if you cannot do so by word, then by example. Yet if this sublime fire of infused love burns in your soul, it will inevitably send forth throughout the Church and the world an influence more tremendous than could be estimated by the radius reached by words or by example. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#faith #love #perfection #prayer #faith

I don't see in myself any perfection. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#i #myself #perfection #see

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#everything #eyes #fix #make #perfection

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. ↗

— Phil Collins

#assumption #been #bothered #each #i

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#another #could #first #how #indeed

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out. ↗

— Emma Watson

#definitely #i #out #perfectionist

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ↗

— George Will

#improvement #often #perfection #pursuit

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. ↗

— Serena Williams

#i #i can #i feel #improve #insatiable

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#energy #great #i #perfection #perfectionist