Quotes About Imperfection

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.

Only one thing matters in this initial draft: get SOMETHING done, however flawed or imperfect.

Redundancy of function is always more reliable than attempts at perfection, which time treats cruelly.

God, I thank You that even when I don't do everything right, You see in my heart the desire to do so, and You bless me with answers to my prayers. I am grateful You look past my imperfections and see the perfect qualities of Your Son, Jesus, stamped on my heart instead. Help me to live Your way so that my ways are pleasing in Your sight.

It helps to remember that in love, mistakes are inevitable. We all sometimes miss our loved ones' calls for closeness. We all find ourselves distracted. We all get stuck in our own fear or anger and fail to catch loved ones as they fall. There is no perfect soul mate, no flawless lover. We are all stumbling around, treading on each other's toes as we are learning to love.

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.   The

is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

Good night," I said, and rolled onto my side. "There is nothing perfect," August said from the doorway. "There is only life.

There is nothing perfect... There is only life.

Everything is the proper stuff of fiction. —VIRGINIA WOOLF

Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that.

Graduations are full of joy and celebration, but they are also full of broken hearts. It is one of those days when you miss the people you love so much it hurts, when imperfect families and dashed dreams weigh so heavily that you begin to think that everyone else is sitting on top of the world but you.

Sages of the past would say we are—all of us—just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.

I came to understand that there is no such thing as a perfect life, just a constant shifting, like the wind on the lake. You adjust your sails to catch the wind, not the other way around.

Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect --he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I shall be obliged to put in something of myself.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

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