Quotes About Imperfection

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers—danger, death, and live ammunition

Of love there are two sorts. The first is that whose highest manifestation is seen in the affection of the sexes. This is always egoistic. It arises from either sex being imperfect without the other; and it is the straining of one sex towards that other which will complete it, because alone it is unable to realize perfectly its nature.

Our conception of God being derived from ourselves and the objects affecting us, we can form no idea except one made up of materials furnished by our experience and reflection. Therefore we select whatever powers and qualities we find amongst ourselves, and consider to be most commendable; we separate them from everything gross, material and imperfect, and heighten them to the utmost imaginable pitch; the aggregate of all these makes up our first rational conception of God.

I like things that are kind of falling apart," he admitted to another interviewer. "[Because] I come from a broken home, I guess. I like things that have been ignored or need to be put back together.

Yoga is a perfectly imperfect practice, and the very next day we may hit a plateau that can slow us down or even stall us indefinitely. You know you have flow in your practice when you reach such a plateau and don't automatically react with frustration and anger.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

One of the secrets of having a long-term relationship is realizing that even if you think the other person's great, at some point, they're going to mess up and annoy you.

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.

Nobody's perfect, everybody is flawed in a way, and to recognize your own flaws and to just enjoy them is something that I try to do for myself. I do that all the time.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

It's all about balance, and recognizing that no one is perfect.

I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.

I'm a flawed, hard-working, hard-trying person.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.