Ken Goldberg quotes

Ken Goldberg quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”
“No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.”
“Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect”
“So perfect â€” Iâ€™m right where I need to be!”
“Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.”
“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.”
“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...”
“I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.”
“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.25, Ballantine Books
“Surfer girls rip and they are hot”

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