Quotes About Imperfection

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

In an imperfect world, full of imperfect leaders, there are countless statues that may not live up to our American values.

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

I feel like I am nowhere near perfect and I have my really rough days and my really off days, but I think being aware of it is the first step to helping yourself.

Perhaps the most noticeable principle of Zen art is its asymmetry; we search in vain for straight lines, even numbers, round circles. Furthermore, nothing ever seems to be centered. Our first impulse is to go into the work and straighten things up—which is precisely the effect the artist intended.

The second step in creating patience is understanding and accepting that there is no such thing as reaching a point of perfection in anything.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretence and admission for these things, they must have supposed his power or his wisdom imperfect, or his will changeable; and the changeableness of the will is the imperfection of the judgement.

Wir kommen aus einer Welt, in der wir unglaubliche Maßstäbe der Vollkommenheit gekannt haben, und erinnern uns deutlich der Schönheiten, die wir nie festzuhalten vermochten, und kehren wieder in jene Welt zurück.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

But you don't love something because you're blind to its faults, right? You love it despite its flaws.

Your biggest strength is your ability to appreciate the imperfection of your life.

There's no question we made a couple mistakes there at UCLA at the very end.

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn't an angel, because I am far from an angel.

I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.

No matter what, God is on my side. I'm not perfect, but I'm not the worst, either.