Quotes About Imperfection

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.

Nobody lives without making mistakes.

In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

I've done a lot of work in my life and have begun to let go of that need to be perfect, and I loved that my character in 'Moms' Night Out' was going through the same thing.

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

While my mom was flawed - as we all are - she loved her children more than anything in the world.

Everyone has something about themselves they hate. I once worked with one of the most beautiful women in the world and she absolutely hated her feet.

Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt.

Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.

It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.

None of us ever gets to be in relationship with a finished person. God's redemptive work of change is ongoing in all our lives.

Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

I have learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that a) people are never perfect, but love can be, b) that is the one and only way that they mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.