Pastoral Resources

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

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

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

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.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.