quotes about Imperfection
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Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp
-- Abbi GlinesSource : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
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You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
-- Abiola Abrams -
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
-- Anais Nin -
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
-- Anatole FranceSource : Anatole France (1920). “The garden of Epicurus”
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There is always a but in this imperfect world.
-- Anne BronteSource : Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.
-- Annie Besant -
Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
-- Anthony HopkinsSource : "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.
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I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.
-- Anton Corbijn -
Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.
-- Augusten BurroughsSource : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.27, Macmillan
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Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
-- Baal Shem Tov -
I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
-- Barack Obama -
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I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.
-- Beth Ditto -
Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.
-- Beverly EngelSource : Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons
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It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.
-- Bob RossSource : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
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Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.
-- Brené BrownSource : Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
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I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.
-- Brené Brown -
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
-- Brian CloughSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.
-- Charles Darwin -
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face, when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Imperfections define perfection
-- Colleen HooverSource : Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
-- Colleen McCullough -
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All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
-- Cyrus the Great -
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
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Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
-- Danny Huston -
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.
-- David Bayles -
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.
-- David Bayles -
Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.
-- Demi Lovato -
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With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.
-- Diane Kruger -
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
-- Djuna Barnes -
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
-- Drew Barrymore -
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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-- Drew BarrymoreSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
-- Drew BarrymoreSource : "Drew Barrymore: 'I've lost count of the number of times I've cried over men'". www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
-- Drew Barrymore -
I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.
-- Drew Barrymore -
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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
-- Duke of Wellington -
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.
-- Edward Weston -
From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.
-- Eileen Caddy -
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The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.
-- ElRay L. Christiansen -
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)
-- Erasmus DarwinSource : Erasmus Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ...”, p.480
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The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.
-- Felix KleinSource : Felix Klein (2016). “Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint: Volume I: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis”, p.166, Springer
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We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
-- Frances E. Willard -
We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.
-- Francois Fenelon -
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.
-- Frantz Fanon -
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.
-- Frederick Sommer -
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The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.
-- Gary E. Stevenson -
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.
-- Gautama Buddha -
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
-- George Eliot -
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... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
-- George Eliot -
I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.
-- Gisele BundchenSource : "Gisele Goes Makeup Free For New BLK DNM Campaign, Tells Us Why She's Over Retouching". Interview with Hayley Phelan, fashionista.com. May 23, 2013.
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I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.
-- Guy Berryman -
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
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The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.
-- Harriet LernerSource : "Psychologist Dances Through Motherhood" by Sara Peyton, www.sfgate.com. May 05, 1998.
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Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
I do think imperfection's underrated.
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As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -
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It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?
-- Hjalmar Branting -
I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
-- Hugh Mackay -
The Holy Spirit would lead us to think much upon our own sins . It is a dangerous thing for us to dwell upon the imperfections of others.
-- Ichabod SpencerSource : Ichabod Smith Spencer (1856). “A Pastor's Sketches: Or, Conversations with Anxious Inquirers Respecting the Way of Salvation”, p.232
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
-- Ieyasu Tokugawa -
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
-- Ignatius Loyola -
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
-- Ignatius Loyola -
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
-- Isaac MizrahiSource : FaceBook post by Isaac Mizrahi from Apr 18, 2011
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
-- Jane Austen -
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
-- Jeff BezosSource : "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.
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It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.
-- Jenny Han -
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
-- Jeremy Collier -
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Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.
-- Jeremy Denk -
To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.
-- John Abercrombie -
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.
-- John DrydenSource : John Dryden (1760). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...”, p.379
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We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create
-- John Lennon -
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Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
-- John Piper -
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
-- John Ruskin -
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
-- John RuskinSource : John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.184, University of Virginia Press
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
-- John Tillotson -
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We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.
-- John Vianney -
Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
-- Jonah Lehrer -
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
-- Jonathan Sacks -
There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.
-- Jose Andres -
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
-- Joseph Addison -
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
-- Joseph Addison -
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
-- Joseph Addison -
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
-- Joseph ButlerSource : Joseph Butler (1839). “The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...”
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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.
-- Josh Turner -
Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.
-- Joyce Meyer -
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
-- Julian Barnes -
No matter who you are, how much money you make, or what kind of clothes you are wearing, CrossFit will force you to come face-to-face with your imperfections
-- Julie Foucher -
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You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.†“Was?†she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?†“No, you don't.†“Pray tell,†she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?†He grinned. “You used to be English.
-- Julie Garwood -
When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.
-- Jurnee Smollett -
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.
-- Katherine CenterSource : Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.226, Ballantine Books
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Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.
-- Katherine Moennig -