Flawed Quotes - Page 7

• If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

  T. D. Jakes

  Teaching, Way, Flaws

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• We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Evil, Willing

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• What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.

  Atul Gawande

  Nice, Skills, Discipline

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right”, p.183, Profile Books

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• Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.

  Kristen Britain

  Memories, Past, People

  Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

  Gavin Schmidt

  Critics, Models, Asks

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• Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

  Jay Crownover

  Unique, People, And Love

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• If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Odds, Law

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.349, Random House

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• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

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• When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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• The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Confidence, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin

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• Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Jesus, Prayer, Hero

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• The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be. We are all perfect. The universe is perfect. Stop struggling against yourself. Accept that you are perfect. When you do, your highest self will shine through.

  Michael Anthony

  Struggle, Acceptance, Self

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• I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Men, Views

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.140, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.

  Kerry Washington

  Badass, Light, Voice

  "Kerry Washington Gave A Badass Speech About Women In Hollywood" by Ashly Perez, www.buzzfeed.com. June 12, 2014.

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• We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Hero, Responsibility, Choices

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• As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

  Kanye West

  Men, Perfect, Music Is

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• The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.

  Helen Fielding

  War, Pride, Men

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• I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

  Alexander Stepanov

  Years, Trying, Use

  Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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• She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didn’t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Daughter, Heart, Oxygen

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams . . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.

  Margaret Maron

  Dream, Hero, Bars

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• I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Perfection, Pursuit, Concepts

  "Jonny Wilkinson: not quite Mr Perfect" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.

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• But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Reality, Love Is, Men

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• When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

  Roxane Gay

  Fall, Names, People

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Feminism, Movement

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Insane, Elements

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