Imperfection Quotes - Page 6

• There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Discovery, Order

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• The essence of man is imperfection.

  Norman Cousins

  Acceptance, Men, Essence

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Design, Solicitude

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.16

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• I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

  Hugh Mackay

  Unique, Secret, Flaws

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• Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Mold, Able

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• Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Eye, Acceptance, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Damage, Fatigue

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Learning, Views

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• I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Soul, May

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.112

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• To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.

  Simon Sinek

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• What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man. It makes me love him more. I think it is sad that more women don't take the chance that maybe men will be moved by seeing the chin a little less firm than it used to be, that a man will be more in love with his wife because he remembers who she was and sees who she is and thinks, God, isn't that lovely that this happened to her. And be moved by life telling its story there.

  Liv Ullmann

  Men, Thinking, Wrinkles

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

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• I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.

  William Rowan Hamilton

  Math, Etc, States

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• I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

  Julianne Moore

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Real

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• The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

  Julio Cortazar

  Writing, Loss, Perfection

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• Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Forever, Political

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• The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election . . . They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Mean, Distribution Of Power

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wise, Art, Ignorance

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• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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• Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Allowance

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.148, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides, perfect is boring. Today, instead of picking yourself apart in the mirror or with friends over drinks, start seeing your "imperfections" as unique traits that give you character and dimension-because that's exactly what they are.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Character, Unique

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 17, 2011

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• 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

  Mother, Growing Up, Awkward

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• We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Cutting, Perfection

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• This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don’t be afraid of that.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Beautiful

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• I'm a 'What you see is what I want you to see' kind of girl . . . When I first started, I just wanted to be perfect. I wanted to say I loved bunnies and rainbows and world peace. I realized that the only way to be perfect was to embrace your imperfections.

  Olivia Munn

  Girl, Perfect, Rainbow

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• 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

  Hate, Greed, Mind

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