“But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.”

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American writer 1972

Madeleine L'Engle A Wind in the Door

Source: A Wind in the Door

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

“… it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.”

Norton Juster (1929) American children's writer, academic, and architect

Variant: …it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

“I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be.”

Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)

“I am just an ordinary human being, with two legs, two eyes, and I work, and I voluntary put myself here so that I can reveal this Knowledge to people, I think because people need it. People have forgotten what this Knowledge is. And I am just teaching them perfectness, and that’s why they called me Perfect Master. And as a matter of fact, I am Perfect Master because I can reveal them this peace. Not saying that I am bodily perfect. I’m not saying I’m... I am perfect because of this reason or that reason, but simply one reason: because I can reveal them this Knowledge, which is perfect.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

London, UK 13 July, 1973
1970s

“Robin Day: But how low does your personal rating, among your own supporters, have to go before you consider yourself a liability to the party you lead?
Edward Heath: Well, popularity isn't everything. In fact it isn't the most important thing. What matters is doing what you believe to be right, and that's what I've always tried to do and I shall go on doing. The question doesn't arise.”

Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)

Interview on "Panorama", BBC 1 (16 October 1967).
Leader of the Opposition

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: The Red Dice

“You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.”

David Fincher (1962) American film director

About the film, The Social Network
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

“Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.”

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