Quotes About Imperfection

I see perfection in things that are likely considered imperfections by others.

Chris may be imperfect, and he makes mistakes, but I can feel his heart, and I know that he is mine.

Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect.

The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told.

Why, as an adult, as a writer, am I interested in this new relationship with imperfection? What does it offer me? I would say a stunning clarity, a more profound self-awareness. Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Perchè alla fine per imparare una lingua, per sentirsi legati a essa, bisogna avere un dialogo, per quanto infantile, per quanto imperfetto.

So che non è possibile conoscere una lingua straniera alla perfezione. Non a caso, ciò che mi confonde di più in italiano è l'uso dell'imperfetto rispetto al passato prossimo.

Direi una chiarezza sbalorditiva, una consapevolezza piú profonda di me stessa. L'imperfezione dà lo spunto all'invenzione, all'immaginazione, alla creatività. Stimola. Più mi sento imperfetta, più mi sento viva.

Un libro, così come una persona, rimane qualcosa di imperfetto, di incompiuto, durante tutta la sua creazione. Alla fine della gestazione la persona nasce, poi cresce. Ma ritengo che un libro sia vivo solo mentre viene scritto. Dopo, al meno per me, muore.

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!

Life isn't about being perfect, it's about being perfected.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.