Quotes About Imperfection

Obviously these people are destined to be frustrated and discontented most of the time. Don't spend your life trying to make the impossible possible. People have faults and there is no way around it! No matter who you are in relationship with there will be times when they will disappoint you, so plan on forgiving frequently.

We're human. We all occasionally wet ourselves. No one is really better than anyone else. We're just all trying to make it through the year as best we can. We screw up sometimes. We succeed sometimes. We laugh. We cry. We go on. Those are the things we should really share with each other this holiday season, right, if we dare send a letter? We should share the truth. We should share the insanity.

The Jingle Balls incident made me understand that holidays were not—and did not have to be—perfect in order to be beautiful. It made me realize that all families are dysfunctional, especially during the holidays, and that while most celebrations are well-intended, they are also usually diarrhea-inducing.

There would still remain the never-resting mind, So that one would want to escape, come back To what had been so long composed. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

The imperfect is our paradise.

I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer

With two books open on my lap, one in my hand, two on the floor, I'm surrounded by imperfect translations: a gathering chaos; something mysteriously formed; without beginning, without end; formless and perfect.

puedes ser escandalosamente feliz en medio de tu maravillosa imperfección.

If you constantly compare this moment with some perfection that you imagined, you are fated to be forever disappointed. Adventure is the unforeseen, not the expected." Blithe

We've got something about ourselves we wish we could change, and we never knew that none is perfect.

Now, when your thoughts, your feeling, and your etheric memories dwell upon imperfection, you slow down the vibratory action of your electrons, and then the substance of the psychic and astral realm closes in around them, lowering the entire vibration of your four lower bodies. In this way, you become an easy prey to depression, poverty, ill-health, to any number of the various negative aspects which mankind at large mirror and outpicture today.

La imperfección de la ciencia es la clave de su progreso. Sin lugar para nuevas ideas, la ciencia de hoy sería la misma que la ciencia de ayer.

History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.

There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get. In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned. So let it go. Release your ego's desire for perfection. Take risks. Stretch. Grow. Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

Making art will show you how much you already have. Your real treasures. A brand-new Maserati is a lot less beautiful to draw than a rusty old pickup.

Skip perfection. A lame drawing is better than no drawing.

In life and leadership, you will make mistakes—and those around you will make mistakes as well. None of us are perfect.

Anyone claiming to be perfect at what they do is proof they don't know what the hell they're doing.

It's rare that people sail beautifully straight through their beautiful lives, always looking beautiful.

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Art is human. Error is human. Art is error.

Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!

Art is human; error is human; ergo, art is error.