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I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

Carol Bartz
balls balance perfection
Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect. by Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Carolina Herrera
perfection perfect doe

I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing us closer to His will for us.

Caryll Houselander
perfection ideas thinking

We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.

Casey Spooner
suicide perfection art
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mist... by Catherine Deneuve

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

Catherine Deneuve
perfection mistake littles

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

Catherine Stock
goal perfection giving

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

Cecelie Berry
claims perfection young

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Celine Dion
perfection golf hands

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

Charles Buck
degrees perfection law

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Caleb Colton
ties perfection mind

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

Charles Caleb Colton
perfection writing order
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts. by Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom perfection

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

Charles Caleb Colton
gold perfection men

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Charles Darwin
progress perfection natural

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Charles Dickens
great-expectations perfection men
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of muc... by Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Charles Lamb
mixtures perfection matter

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Charles Lindbergh
perfection men civilization

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

Charles Lindbergh
aviation progress perfection

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

Charles Lyell
perfection wish science
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the... by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
icy errors perfection
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