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Quotes About Imperfection

And wasn't it amazing that an imperfection could make a perfect thing even more perfect?
~ Sandra Marton
I don't mind any of the broken things. I like to figure out their stories." -George
~ Sara Pennypacker
Being sick is not an imperfection.
~ Sara Shepard
No one's book is perfect.
~ Sara Sheridan
Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize either.
~ Sarah A. Hoyt
To the God-hungry imagination, the fallen world is a crummy place much of the time; we rightly long for the land at the back of the wardrobe, the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon.
~ Sarah Arthur
Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!
~ Angelina Jolie
Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
~ David Strathairn
Nobody is solid and perfect all of the time.
~ Drew Barrymore
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
~ Michael Chabon
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way.
~ Paul Arden
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
~ Emily Dickinson
I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
~ Cordell Hull
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.
~ Mary Schmich
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
~ C. S. Lewis
You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.
~ Elena Dementieva
Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
~ Fred Brooks
And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
~ Henry Rollins
There were moments growing up where I felt beautiful, but I truly didn't feel beautiful all of the time until I became a mom. It really allowed me to realize no one is perfect.
~ Ayesha Curry
Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.
~ Ron Padgett
Keinginan telah mengajarkan kepadamu betapa sia-sianya keinginan, penyesalan mengajarkan betapa sia-sianya penyesalan. Bersabarlah wahai kekeliruan, karena kami semua menjadi bagianmu. Bersabarlah wahai Ketidaksempurnaan, berkat engkaulah Kesempurnaan menyadari dirinya. Bersabarlah kemarahan, karena engkau tidak kekal abadi.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Allí donde un sastre remendaría su tela, donde un calculista hábil corregiría sus errores, donde el artista retocaría su obra maestra todavía imperfecta, la naturaleza prefiere volver a empezar desde la arcilla, desde el caos, y ese derroche es lo que llamamos el orden de las cosas.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar