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Quotes About Imperfection

Resumiendo, el talento natural no analiza sus defectos, ni los elimina entrenando o practicando. La mera idea de ser imperfecto es aterradora.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
~ Carrie Jones
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
~ Carroll O'Connor
you don't have to be perfect to be pretty
~ Carson Kressley
If I have any fault, it is digression
~ George Gordon Byron
Of course, if you're hoping for a perfect world, you're bound to be disappointed. But an interesting world--now that's doable. It's right here in front of you.
~ George Hammond
Since God works among imperfect human beings in historical settings, "pure" or "perfect" Christianity can seldom if ever exist in this world. God in his grace works through our limitations; for that very reason we should ask for the grace to recognize what those limitations are. So we may—and ought to—carefully identify the cultural forces which affect the current versions of Christianity.
~ George M. Marsden
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~ George Orwell
To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
~ George Soros
Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
Men are men, they needs must err.
~ Euripides
Thanks for the nice introduction. Next to my resume, that's the closest I'll ever come to perfection.
~ Anonymous
The essence of man is imperfection.
~ Norman Cousins
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
~ Marge Piercy
There is no perfection in humanity.
~ Samuel Montagne
He is lifeless that is faultless.
~ English proverb
Perfection is out of the question.
~ Anne Archer
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
~ Saint Augustine
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
~ William Faulkner
He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.
~ Billy Joel
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.
~ Hugh Prather