aim for perfection and berate ourselves when we fall short. Some of us avoid that humiliation by simply giving up. I don’t want you to give up. I want you to aim high‚ certainly‚ but don’t stop simply because you didn’t achieve perfection. There are two points I will make tonight. Firstly‚ perfection for us mere mortals is by its very nature impossible to achieve. Secondly‚ to achieve perfection is not actually a desirable thing. Firstly‚ why is perfection impossible? Perfection – being
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live in a society where there is a lot of pressure to be perfect. We feel like we need to look like the models in the magazines. Because nowadays‚ it’s all about the looks‚ the style and the weight‚ nothing else matters. The actual definition of perfection is ‘being entirely without fault or defect ‘. Can anybody actually think of anyone who has no fault? Whether its weight or something silly like a limp or a allergy‚ everyone has one. And when we have a small fault like this‚ we feel like the world
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not. however it is sometimes claimed that any student can be taught to become a good sportsman or a singer." the statement is pretty true that some children are born with talent while some are not but also children if trained at young can achieve perfection. as mentioned above it is pretty true that children can be trained to be perfect at something‚ i had experienced it myself. my mom and dad loved music and are extremely good singers‚ as does everyone expect ‚ they had also expected me to be
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Perfection is merely an ideology that can never be obtained and is constantly being pulled down by human’s own imperfections. In William Shakespeare’s‚ Hamlet‚ Shakespeare sheds light on the tragic flaws of heroic characters; the tragedy that befalls Hamlet is the result of his unrealistic idealism‚ which is the cause of Hamlet’s alienation and indecisiveness. Hamlet’s unrealistic idealism alienates him‚ and can be seen through his abhorrence of women’s “frailty” (I‚ii‚146) which causes his relationship
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American Perfection What does it mean to be successful? Is success measured by our material possessions or by our achievements? There are many contrasting views of what an accomplished man or woman looks like. One of such is the overpowering belief that being well-to-do looks like a mansion‚ a fanciful car and designer lifestyle. While there are some who have humbler aspirations‚ the more decorated variation has been the prevailing ideal. This underlying craving for a far off or out of reach status
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going all wrong? I have. In the essay “So What’s So Bad About Being So-So?” by Lisa Wilson Strick (205-207) she makes the point that being perfect doesn’t always turn out the way you hope. I completely concur with her. Perfection can often be a wonderful thing‚ but for me‚ perfection caused me to have a very low confidence and so it became a vice in my life. Rather then being myself‚ I was too concerned about trying to be like everyone else around me and it turned out to be a huge mistake. In Strick’s
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In The Odyssey written by Homer‚ Odysseus faces many monsters which are both metaphorical and tangible. Everyone has their own “monsters” which hold them back from their goals. My perfectionism is my greatest obstacle. The desire to be faultless is omnipresent‚ it acts like a ghost and is always looming over me. I confront my monster daily. He continually invades my head and I feel that I can not escape him. I was born into a family that lives for soccer‚ both of my parents are collegiate coaches
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Mrs Ramsay As was the case with Lily‚ Mr Ramsay´s wife also relates to art in many different ways. Firstly‚ as it has been aforementioned‚ she tries to make of the moment something permanent and to create form out of chaos. As Caracciolo says “in her wish to bring people together‚ even in her housekeeping concerns‚ a whole aesthetics is implicit‚ with the claim that art imposes a shape on the shapeless‚ making of it ‘something permanent’” (Caracciolo‚ 259). This “wish” of bringing people together
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Taylor Engelker Final Draft Moral Perfection Essay Moral perfection is something to really strive for‚ as everyone has their faults it’s also nearly impossible to obtain. I for one am only human‚ I have many faults‚ some of which have the potential to be fixed with some of the virtues Benjamin Franklin talked in the excerpt “Moral Perfection” out of his book The Autobiography. In this excerpt he talked about thirteen virtues that he thought made someone morally perfect. Of these thirteen
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goal. They see temptations and pleasures that can be easily achieved if you are better than the person next to you. Standing out can destroy you or make you in today’s society. Those who strive for perfection want a life that is better than everyone else’s. Because the media creates an image of perfection‚ normal people feel that they are worthless unless they change themselves. The new technologies of designer babies and cloning are an example of humans trying to become perfect. We are a society that
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