Not Perfect Quotes - Page 7

• One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

  Laszlo Bock

  Data, People, Giving

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• Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

  Maynard Jackson

  Mean, Perfect, Available

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• Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Progress Not Perfection, Growth

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 19, 2011

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• The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

  Ann Richards

  Smart, Self, Perfect

  "Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 23, 2001.

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• We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.

  Charlie Campbell

  Perfect, Complaining, Scrutiny

  Charlie Campbell (2012). “Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People”, p.8, The Overlook Press

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• I love what I do, and I always make sure to tell my fans I'm not perfect, so don't think I am. I make mistakes. I'm human, and we all are. But I try to be the best I can be, and that's all I really can do.

  Selena Gomez

  Mistake, Thinking, Perfect

  "Selena Gomez Describes Life in Spotlight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 21, 2010.

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• It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lines, Facts, Mathematical

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• Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Perfection, Chimera

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• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  Maynard Jackson

  Kings, Hero, Mean

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• Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fighting, Men, Perfect

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

  Michael Hirst

  Character, Perfect, Interesting

  "'Vikings' creator Michael Hirst talks Season 1 and beyond". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. June 12, 2013.

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• So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

  Joyce Meyer

  Perfect, What If, Ifs

  Twitter post from Mar 4, 2013

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• When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Heart, Iran, America

  Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

  Kevin Gates

  Long, Perfect, Care

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• People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Writing, Character, People

  "Gina Prince-Bythewood: Gina the Dreamer. The 'Beyond the Lights' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 21, 2014.

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• A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.

  Michele Bachmann

  Perfect, Messy, Situation

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• Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Writing, Hypnosis

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Believe, Men

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• Just last night everything had seemed perfect. Well, not perfect. The world was still being tortured with Fey and Lost Souls, but, between Alex and me, everything was amazing. We were connected in every single way possible and not like how we were when we had the Stars energy in us. Everything was raw, breathtaking, moving, blissful. And then poof, once again the feelings are gone. Because hes gone.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Stars, Moving, Night

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• I m human, I m not perfect. Although, I make mistakes all the time.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Mistake, Perfect, Humans

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• The audience wants you present, not perfect.

  Darren LaCroix

  Perfect, Want, Audience

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• Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Practice, Perfect, Wrong Things

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• Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

  Court McGee

  Progress Not Perfection, Mma, Gains

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• No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

  Margaret of Valois

  Doe, God Love, Creatures

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