Quotes About Perfecting

#1. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#2. If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

Oswald Chambers

#3. By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

Naveen Jain

#5. Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

Tony Robbins

#6. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

Susan Sontag

#7. Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving.

Brene Brown

#9. If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.

Robertson Davies

#10. Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#11. The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Benjamin Haydon

#12. given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

Henry Ford

#13. Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#14. When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

Anthony Romero

#15. The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

John Cage

#16. The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#17. We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Connie Sellecca

#18. When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

Adam Braun

#19. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

Christopher McDougall

#20. I offered my most enticing smile, the one I'd been perfecting for years. Sincere and encouraging, it brimmed with counterfeit confidence. My smile had earned me forgiveness when I deserved none, a seat in first class though I'd only paid for coach.

Tara Leigh

#21. Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

Jez Butterworth

#22. The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Ellen Key

#23. He was defeated. Competitive him, who'd spent most of his life perfecting the art of winning. He'd been trounced by a woman. Killed with one look from those hazel eyes.

Becky Wade

#24. The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Friedrich List

#25. Work/Loaf Ratio" ... I have spent fourteen years perfecting ... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the "W/LR" save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

Gary Reilly

#26. She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.

Tommy Wallach

#27. I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

David Wojnarowicz

#28. Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Edsger Dijkstra

#29. I've been perfecting my death glare on her since she hit the bar. Sadly, it isn't working.

J. Lynn

#30. Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constitution those powers which time and trial show are still wanting

Thomas Jefferson

#31. He worked for two hours, perfecting the storyline-the situation, the setup, the punchline.After changing her tire and practicing macho lines to impress her, Macintosh ended up with five dollars, a stutter, and soaked shoes as Veronica zoomed out of his life.

Nora Roberts

#32. By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

Shigeru Yoshida

#33. It is quite common to see team members spending a lot of time 'perfecting' things that don't really need it rather than doing an adequate job and then moving on to another task.

Anonymous

#34. Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.

Michael P. Kube-McDowell

#35. Successful people have not spared time to achieve their dreams but have struggled to bring their Imaginations to perfection coupled with perfecting their skills at hand

Emma Kizito

#36. I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

Tony Danza

#37. I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

Sean Stephenson

#38. I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

Anne Hathaway

#39. I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

Haniel Long

#40. Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

Maurice Nicoll

#41. Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one's character through the having and handling of every given day.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#42. It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#43. An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.

Pearl Zhu

#44. We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go.

Arthur M. Young

#45. Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Swami Vivekananda

#46. Suffering often changes our ambitions. Before his conversion, Saul cared primarily about his reputation and perfecting his religiosity. The transformed Paul left reputation behind and instead boasted in weakness, longing to suffer and share in Christ's death

Anonymous

#47. God's not in the business of pampering His children. He's in the business of perfecting them.

Katie Ganshert

#48. For a writer, a break from working is nonexistent; while you fingers may stop typing, your brain never stops writing, developing, changing, and perfecting the story.

Nicole Gulla

#49. I've spent most of my life perfecting the craft of living history. I have no practice at living in the present.

Leila Sales

#50. There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

Eric Braeden

#51. Here was an expert who had spent years perfecting her craft, yet one of her best dishes was created under intense pressure, in a couple of hours.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#52. When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.

Sharon Salzberg

#53. It helps to look at branding as a challenge that entrepreneurs spend years perfecting.

Ryan Holmes

#54. There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#55. Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

Arnold Bennett

#56. It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

Billy Sheehan

#57. This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything

Renae A. Sauter

#58. The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

John Shaffer

#59. Begin with perfecting your daily life. That's the way to perfection.

Sri M

#60. I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.

Gary Shteyngart

#61. A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it.

Peter Kreeft

#62. Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.

Frederick Lenz

#63. Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

John Stuart Mill

#64. That's like the really fun, exciting thing about wrestling. There's no such thing as perfecting this art. You're constantly growing and you're constantly progressing and changing up you're style and gauging an audience to make sure that audience is enjoying what you're doing.

Adam Cole

#65. Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

Maria Montessori

#66. Once you are truly seduced by profession of writing, you clock in one time ... and never clock out. You dwell in a creative space with the pure joy of embracing the very moment that mystifies others because no vacation is ever taken or desired. Perfecting your craft is your calm.

Carl Henegan

#67. We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Mary Astell

#68. God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

James MacDonald

#69. If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

John Cassian

#70. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Charlie Brooker

#71. By perfecting the circle, we kept moving without ever having to leave.

Nathan Blake

#72. Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

Normandi Ellis

#73. We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

John Updike

#74. The challenge, it turns out, isn't in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of

Seth Godin

#75. ...forgetting and perfecting freely, with open hand giving back to the world the gifts received, thus it is that the Ego stands in the current of life's events. Because a man bears this and no other Ego he has particular experiences, out of which certain deeds--and misdeeds--issue.

Hermann Poppelbaum

#76. The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.

Hans Von Storch

#77. Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

Marvin Davis

#78. If you'd only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came in, I was just perfecting a little song about a wild woman of Gotham, who made love to young men and then shot 'em - till

Leslie Charteris

#79. Perfecting a craft or skill, takes a great deal of hard work; the end result will be amazing!

W.K. Corvo

#80. Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.

Brian Lawley

#81. It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.

Michael O'Brien

#82. Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#83. Adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome. Even in a group, he was slowly perfecting the skill of holding himself separate. It was easier than one might expect; the others allowed him to do it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#84. What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

Immanuel Kant

#85. Needed mothering. Grief and distance bound the wound, perfecting the bond

M.L. Stedman

#86. I'm fine. It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

Kiersten White

#87. The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

Carol Ann Duffy

#88. The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#89. As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that Heaven's light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in to the likeness of Christ.

Ellen G. White

#90. The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this City of God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#91. Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

C.S. Lewis

#92. The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

Bodhidharma

#93. Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

Karen Kain

#94. Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships.

Germaine De Stael

#95. Perfecting your character isn't a marathon, a race, or a competition. It can only be won in stride with daily motivation.

Orly Wahba

#96. Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

James Dyson

#97. There is no way I could have played fourteen years in the NFL if I didn't work my butt off on the practice field perfecting my technique or spend hours upon hours in the film room studying defenses.

Donald Driver

#98. Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

Jay Roach

#99. I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

Harrison Ford

#100. Parents: Perfecting ways to humiliate their children since the dawn of time.

Shannon Messenger