Quotes About Imperfection

Everything is possible. I am God, I am Buddha, I am imperfect Ray Smith, all at the same time, I am empty space, I am all things. I have all the time in the world to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.

Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

I've learned that we all have an ugly side.

I am not perfect! When I was a little girl I thought I was ugly. My nose was too big for my face.

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

No one or anything on this earth is perfect; Can only try to be perfect

am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.