Quotes About Imperfection

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

Music really isn't supposed to be perfect. It's all about people relating to each other and doing something that's really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.