Norman Cousins Quotes About Imperfection

Quotes about: Imperfection

• The essence of man is imperfection.

  Norman Cousins

  Acceptance, Men, Essence

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

• To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Essence, Optimism

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

• The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

  Norman Cousins

  Moving, Men, Essence

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