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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  ~ Abraham Maslow quotes from Motivation & Personality

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• There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

  ~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance

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• People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a "rightist." I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

  ~ James Cameron quotes

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• Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

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• If you perform the sacrifice of doing your duty, you do not have to do anything else. Devoted to duty, man attains perfection.

  ~ Bhagavad-Gita quotes

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• Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington’s rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

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• All of us have failed to reach our dream of perfection, so I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

  ~ William Faulkner quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

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• Imperfections are the essence of evolution.

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

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• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

  ~ Saint Augustine quotes

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• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

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