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Quotes About Imperfection

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.
~ Gareth Southgate
I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.
~ Iman Shumpert
The good news is that even if your early crepes have funny lumps and bulges or aren't paper-thin, they're still gonna be plenty edible and delicious.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
I've made plenty of mistakes, and I'm sure I'll make more.
~ Sam Hinkie
Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.
~ Antony Johnston
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
~ John Drinkwater
I am not a saint, and neither do I claim to walk on water.
~ Ruben Diaz Sr.
Every woman has cellulite. I've never claimed to have a perfect body.
~ Mischa Barton
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
~ Craig Brown
I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.
~ Nadiya Hussain
You know me; I make some comments that aren't really good.
~ Rex Ryan
And what's great is, you know, while 'Mike and Molly' are working on their health, that's their flaw, the people that surround them are actually- that's the mess. Those two have it together the most.
~ Billy Gardell
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
~ Michael Gove
I'm suspicious when I go to someone's house and everything is beautiful and perfect. Authenticity often means mistakes.
~ Grayson Perry
Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence, and I swear to reflect that as well.
~ Tate Reeves
Life is not perfect. I've had my share of sweat, blood and pain.
~ Rekha
A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.
~ Matt Bellamy
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
~ Ben Whishaw
We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.
~ Mario Batali
Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that's why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world.
~ Reggie Joiner
For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
~ Rene Descartes
And it is evident that it is not less repugnant that falsity or imperfection, in so far as it is imperfection, should proceed from God, than that truth or perfection should proceed from nothing.
~ Rene Descartes
far as life falls short of perfection it is more fun outside the grave than in it.
~ Rex Stout
The enemy of a good asset allocation is the quest for a perfect one. Fight the urge to be perfect.
~ Richard A. Ferri