Flaws Quotes - Page 10

• A word of the faith that never balks,
  Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
  It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
  That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Wonder, Accepting

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

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• Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

  Andrew Solomon

  Sad, Depression, Despair

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Grief, Knowledge, Men

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

  Patti Stanger

  Love Is, People, Finding Love

  FaceBook post by Patti Stanger from Jul 01, 2012

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• Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Believe, Golf, Swings

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• Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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• Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Ideas, Space

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• Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Science, Greatness

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt; the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Children, Kids

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Garden, Territory

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Technology, Alive

  "My Universe: A Transcendent Reality". Book by Alex Vary, Part II, 2011.

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• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, Sound, Rags

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• She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.

  Um Ki-joon

  Drama, Kids, Here And There

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• When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Motivational, Judging, Looks

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• Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

  Chuck Noll

  Football, Character, Nfl

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• It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity

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• Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

  Confucius

  Wise, Mistake, Failure

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Clever, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.393, A&C Black

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• A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Writing, Perfection

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• Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

  Stephen Batchelor

  World, Embrace, Ambiguity

  Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.246, Spiegel & Grau

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• Aren't we taught as kids that we're beautiful because we feel beautiful and not because someone else says so? You don't look like the model on the magazine cover but you can still be beautiful, so I can't say I really want to change anything. I'm happy with the flaws I have.

  Jeremy Renner

  Beautiful, Kids, Looks

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• I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

  Laura Dern

  Raised, Protagonists, Flawed

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• I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Thinking, Feels

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks NOBODY WALKS, What Drew Her to Lena Dunham’s Script, the Film’s Themes of Sexual Energy and Expression and Its Moral Gray Area". Interview with Sheial Roberts, collider.com. October 11, 2012.

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• It’s amazing how lonely you can feel and like nobody understands…The moment you are vulnerable, someone always reaches out….They go through the same things. I want them to feel comfortable knowing that I have flaws as wells. I want them to know those flaws. I’m afraid of the pedestal…I want to be a peer to my fans

  Rihanna

  Lonely, Knowing, Fans

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