Quotes About Imperfection

Maxims Hidden in the Text Try, fail, analyze, adjust, try again. John Maynard Keynes cycled through these steps ceaselessly. 178 An imperfect decision made in time is better than a perfect one made too late. 215-216 Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces slogan. 222 If we ask many tiny pertinent questions, we can close in on an answer for the big question. 263

An imperfect decision made in time was better than a perfect decision made too late. Ref. German mission command.

We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

There are no perfect politicians - just as there are no perfect pastors or voters. We are all sinners in need of a Savior.

We don't all have perfect lives, even if they are seemingly so.

You trust your work. You understand throughout the season everything isn't going to be perfect, stay confident, continue to take the shots you've been taking and whatever happens, happens.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

We are human beings, and it's okay if we have a bad hair day or bad day in general.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

Whatever you want me to bake, I'll do it badly.

I'm a very bad baker.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

I'm bad at baking.

I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.

In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

imperfection is the rule, not the exception.

One point of this book is to remind us that imperfection is the rule, not the exception. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in Jim Crow–era Alabama.

Nostalgia is a powerful force, and in the maelstrom of the moment many of us seek comfort in imagining that once there was a Camelot—without quite remembering that the Arthurian legend itself was about a court riven by ambition and infidelity. One point of this book is to remind us that imperfection is the rule, not the exception.

Yet for all that the United States has accomplished—and we have been a country that people take pains to come to, not to leave—we remain an imperfect union.

One point of this book is to remind us that imperfection is the rule, not the exception.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

It's good to have friends in life. If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.