Quotes About Imperfection

I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

Start now, do not wait for things to be perfect

Perfection is born of imperfection.

Don't get hung up on trying to be perfect before you start or you may never begin.

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren't a perfect parent.

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing.

My teacher once told me – "No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers."

It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.

It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn

I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.

I share with Henry an anger not at the imperfection of women, but at the foulness of living itself.

What you are trying to do is a piece of art that is perfect in itself as art and yet retains the imperfection, the human fragmented, chaotic characteristics of a diary written on the spot in white heat. I don't know whether it can be done. It's a problem.

I blinked and looked around my tiny rented kitchen, saw things I'd never seen before: the stove leaning to the left, the handle of the fridge covered with dirty masking tape, the chipped paint of the window casing, a missing square of linoleum on the floor under the radiator. I stood and closed the notebook. I picked up the pencil and set it on top like some kind of marker, a reminder to me of something important I shouldn't lose.

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow. If you give your users something to play with early, their feedback will often lead you to a better eventual solution

perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software.

the real world just won't let us produce much that's truly perfect, particularly not bug-free software. Time, technology, and temperament all conspire against us.

That which is mended is but patched and can never be whole again.

A Buddhist scholar once explained to me that most Westerners mistakenly think that Nirvana is what you arrive at when your suffering is over and only an eternity of happiness stretches ahead. But such bliss would always be shadowed by the sorrow of the past and would therefore be imperfect.

Pot fi, într-o relaÈ›ie imperfect?, mult mai bine decât când sunt singur?.

Swiat nie bylby taki zly, gdyby ludzie nie chcieli go naprawiac.

Sometimes, we do ourselves a disservice to yearn for what we've lost. For if we try to find it again, we might discover faults and blemishes memory has been kind enough to erase.