“It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.”

“Because he does not strive, no one finds it possible to strive with him.”

“Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.”

“Man’s striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.”

“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”

“The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.”