Quotes About Flaws

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.

It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen.

Would you like to know your fatal flaw?' Eddie flushed with annoyance. He could have easily made a list of Hochman's flaws, enough to fill several pages. Still, he was curious. 'Please do tell.' 'You judge what you don't understand.

I would have seen flaws in this, later in my life. I would have felt the impatience, even suspicion, a woman can feel towards a man who lacks a motive. Who has only friendship to offer and offers that so easily and bountifully that even if it is rejected he can move along as buoyantly as ever. Here was no solitary fellow hoping to hook up with a girl. Even I could see that, inexperienced as I was. Just a person who took comfort in the moment and in a sort of reasonable façade of life.

Heaven wasn't perfect.

Although I'm good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than for mothers.

Great men have great faults.

Humanity is worse than flies.

I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

You knew what was real not by its qualities but by its imperfections.

He had his flaws - he'd voted for Reagan, he believed that Carl Weathers was a GREAT thespian, and he grew emotional listening to ABBA

It is easy to see in retrospect that what I longed for was not a boyfriend but a version of me without my defects --- a man in whom I could see myself as flawless, a man whose jokes always caused riotous laughter instead of sometimes falling flat, whose German was fluent instead of passable, who actually knew everything instead of pretending to and then Googling it when he got home.

It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Tibby, for all his defects, had a genuine personality.

People are not perfect (except when they smile).

Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing.

A real diamond, his father used to say, is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect.

A real diamond is never perfect.

The few effective provisions of Dodd-Frank are masked by its many flaws - flaws that have been and will continue to be detrimental to the American economy and our financial future if not reversed.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.