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If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Maria Tallchief

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  3. Life is a chaotic gives who will not add nothing to it and deprives who want to add to it – Ramy Mohamed Sabry
  4. People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying. – Dominic Riccitello
  5. There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created….perfection. – Vivian Amis
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  8. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
  9. Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth. – AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda
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  12. …the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause. – Ren Descartes
  13. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business. – Michael J Fox
  14. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. – Vince Lombardi Jr
  15. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. – Vince Lombardi Jr
  16. Always remember… Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless… – Ziad K Abdelnour
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  18. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
  19. It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it – Anand Neelakantan
  20. If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing. – Francis A Schaeffer
  21. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  22. Take away the people’s bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution. – Alex Jackson
  23. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. – Geraldine Brooks
  24. His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn’t read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn’t intend to tell me anything either. – JA Rogers
  25. An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing. – Nicko Widjaja
  26. When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose. – John Kuypers
  27. Start with yourself, strive for continuous improvement, perfection doesn’t happen right away – Napz Cherub Pellazo
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  29. I need to learn to stay away from those who want to steal my heart and replace it with steel. – Maria Nieves
  30. We will go away and nothing will remain except what we shared and gave away with love. – Debasish Mridha
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  35. In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said. – Arundhati Roy
  36. Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego] – Maria Grazia Swan
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  38. It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. – Colson Whitehead
  39. Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections. – Peter Prange
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