I perfected the art of being uninteresting.
I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him. '
Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.
It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.
This is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews.
It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.
Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.
Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.
. . . HH Beard has perfected. . . 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better. . . . . in 1942 and onwards.
Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.
We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
