Imperfection Quotes - Page 22

• My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Photographer, Wealth

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• I do think imperfection's underrated.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Perfection, Underrated

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• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Support, Political

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Inward

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

  Steven Weber

  Math, Austerity, Shifting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.

  Kerry Washington

  Unique, Celebrate, Embrace

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• There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know 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

  Running, Eye, Feelings

  "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Faults, Flaws

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• In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

  Ville Valo

  Eye, Perfection

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• 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

  Dream, Feelings, Skins

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• A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Glasses, Self

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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• In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid.
  As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.

  Nikolai Lobachevsky

  Effort, Transition, Obscurity

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• You are surprised at your imperfections,--why? I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. Surely you might rather be astonished that you do not fall into more frequent and more grievous faults, and thank God for His upholding grace.

  Jean Grou

  Fall, Self, Grace

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• If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

  Francois Fenelon

  Vanity, Annoyed, Weakness

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• Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Home, Heaven

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• They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

  Lisa Unger

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.259, Crown

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• Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

  Brené Brown

  Together, Reminders, Creativity And Writing

  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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• You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

  Amy Bloom

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sexy

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• You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

  Abiola Abrams

  Perfect, Made, Magnificent

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• Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Self Esteem, Invited

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• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  May, Should, Despise

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