Imperfect Quotes - Page 5

• We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

  Randy Bachman

  Perfection, Imperfection

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• Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.

  Albert Meltzer

  Mean, Class, Perfect

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• I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

  Maureen McCormick

  Thinking, Self, Roles

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY Intreview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Acceptance, Self

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.88, Penguin UK

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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

  Mary Antin

  Eye, Progress, Facts

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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• Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Acting, Energy

  John Ruskin (1860). “The Stones of Venice...”, p.5

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• Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.

  Brené Brown

  Real, People, Perfect

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" by Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, My Soul

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• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  Saint Patrick

  Character, Angel, Soul

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• You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Smell, Effort

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• Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

  Sloane Crosley

  Crush, Ex Boyfriend, Dancing

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• As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Views

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• Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

  William Blake

  Organization, Perfect, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.637, Univ of California Press

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Desire, Needs

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.44

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• Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Office, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.11

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• Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Past, Quirky

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Humanity, Offensive

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.80

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• I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Two, Perfect, Inspire

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 23)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

  Marie Curie

  Real, Believe, Sacrifice

  Marie Curie's letter to Eve Curie Labouisse (July 1929), as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 341), 1937.

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• Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

  Sara Genn

  Business, Heart, Artist

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• Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

  Sara Genn

  Eggs, Perfect, Challenges

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• Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.

  John Loengard

  Real, Thinking, Honest

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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