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Quotes About Imperfect

Mammography will remain a controversial issue because it is an imperfect tool involving ionizing radiation. Let's move beyond this method that is decades old and move forward with an early detection method for breast cancer that will not increase a women's cancer risk at all.
~ Margaret Cuomo
All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.
~ Myron Scholes
I'm totally human.
~ Serena Williams
If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being. should be wretched.
~ Mary Shelley
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
~ John Stossel
I love an imperfect rhyme.
~ Walker Hayes
In my little imperfect way, what I'm trying to do is understand the world. As a filmmaker, you realize as you get older that each film is part of a dialogue you're having with yourself. That started when I was working in documentaries. And in a way, I've never deviated from it.
~ Paul Greengrass
I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
~ Roberto Azevedo
We're very, very flawed, myself included.
~ Theodore Melfi
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.
~ Henry Gray
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
~ Ellis Peters
I do honestly believe that, in the 21st century, sport is the most significant cultural element in this imperfect world. It calls for serious attention.
~ Frank Deford
it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...
~ Judith Guest
No man is infallible.
~ Pat Buckley
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
~ Jaron Lanier
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
~ Michael Pollan
It (Teaism) insulates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
the ring was a symbol of their family, even though it was—flawed, but ultimately lovable. Difficult to wear or even figure out, but still theirs. Beautiful and messy and imperfect and deeper than it first appeared.
~ Brenda Janowitz
Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.
~ Ben Bernanke
I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.
~ Brene Brown
I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.
~ Paul Butcher