Quotes About Imperfection

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.

Ask kin-tsugi, the Japanese art of "golden joinery," in which a broken bowl is fixed and seamed with glow, cracks to the forefront, filled in by gold, rendering the repaired thing more remarkable, honoring its shatter. The result is neither broken nor unbroken, but both at once, shadow, object, corona around an eclipsed sun. Own the ways we break, it seems to say: understand that the fault lines of a mind or body are individual, and honor them.

Non mi sembra affatto di essere meglio degli altri: è l'idea di vedere i miei difetti moltiplicarsi per centinaia di volte che accentua la mia insofferenza e la riflette tutto intorno.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

Don't let perfection get in the way of your success.

Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Real life is so…messy.

I am far from perfect. You have made me all too aware of that. But for whatever it's worth, I believe I am my best self - my truest self - when I'm with you.

You Can't Write Perfect Software. Did that hurt? It shouldn't. Accept it as an axiom of life. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Because perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. And unless you accept this as a fact, you'll end up wasting time and energy chasing an impossible dream.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

I welcome comments. I think criticism can be very constructive and can help further. I mean, there's no perfect perfection anywhere. There's no perfect picture.

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

Since we are not robots, we can't always perform well.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.