Quotes About Imperfection

We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

I am not strong on perfection.

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.

The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.

If everything is too organized or too perfect, I get bored.

I do a little of several things like writing, teaching and political organizing, but none of them as well as I would like.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Everything is not perfect in our world.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Tiberius was badly prone to spots. Tall, muscular and well proportioned, with piercing eyes that could supposedly see in the dark, and sporting the mullet that had long marked the Claudians as tonsorial trendsetters, he was by any reckoning handsome – except for the pimples. They would suddenly erupt all over his cheeks in a violent rash. Good-looking though he was, he never could stop the acne.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Keep in mind that if God waited until we were perfect before He allowed us to be in His service, none of us could ever serve. We shouldn't use this truth as a cop-out to not change out improve, but to encourage us to keep striving when we're tempted to quit, remembering we've all got room to grow.

Ah! Qué terrible es el sino de los pobres locos, esos 'renglones torcidos', esos yerros, esas faltas de ortografía del Creador, como los llamaba 'el Autor de la Teoría de los Nueve Mundos', ignorante de que él era uno de los más torcidos de todos los renglones de la caligrafía divina!

To wash and iron and paint over and to feel sorry about all the irreparable things, and to know that there would still be cracks everywhere, and that all the things had been in much better shape before... No, no! And to put them all back into place in the dark and black rooms and try to find them cosy once more...

These pieces of you, imperfectly sewn and patched all over, blur by like a blinding pitch

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

He sees the scar over his eye. It will fade eventually, but it will never disappear. It will never be as good as new. Maybe that's okay. Maybe being good as new is overrated.