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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care much about the idea of normal - that's very abstract to me. I think that perfection is practically unattainable but imperfection is right at hand. So that's why I love monsters: because they represent a side of us we should actually embrace and celebrate.

I love his [Brad Furman] ferocious desire for perfection and his love of vitality, it feeds me, man. It feeds him and it feeds the whole crew. And he's got huge respect for talent. And that's why talent goes in and gives it 300% percent.

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.

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

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Imperfections define perfection

Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers.