“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Source: Fight Club
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American novelist, essayist 1962Related quotes
“I don’t expect perfection, I expect excellence.” I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.”
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Variant: Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. ow would you know happiness if you never experienced downs?
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“Society expects trans women to be perfect the way they expect all women to be perfect.”
2017
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds (1995)
Context: Find moments when you are not, and those will be the moments when you will be for the first time... really. So I am the white cloud, and the whole effort is to make you also white clouds drifting in the sky. Nowhere to go, coming from nowhere, just being there this very moment — perfect. I don't teach you any ideals, I don't teach you any oughts. I don't say to you be this, become that. My whole teaching is simply this: Whatsoever you are, accept it so totally that nothing is left to be achieved, and you will become a white cloud.
“I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.”
History of the Church, 5:181 (29 October 1842)
1840s
“An Unread Book”, p. 47
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)