Flaws Quotes - Page 17

• We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, People, Imperfection

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• Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

  Lynn Shelton

  Character, People, Way

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• Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Law, Understanding

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Preface), 1677.

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• The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Strong, Temptation, Enemy

  William Sloane Coffin (1982). “The Courage to Love”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Growing Up, Mistake

  Source: wwd.com

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• That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

  Joel Spolsky

  Rewards, Easy, Competitors

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• Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mean, Errors, Ideas

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• There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.

  Steven Spielberg

  Airplane, Thinking, Wire

  "AICN Exclusive: Spielberg speaks! Jaws Blu-Ray in the works with no 'digital corrections!'". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Design, Guy, Wake Up

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 01, 2000.

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• To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.

  Tom Atlee

  Educational, Media, Political

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• Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know.

  Eve Ensler

  Country, Passion, Thinking

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• There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

  George Leonard

  Self, Want, Littles

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• Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

  Paul Goodman

  Real, World, Artistic

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 176), 1956.

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• Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're still human and they still have flaws just like everyone else. So that was the real meaning behind "Dollhouse", at least how it related to me because it's something I was annoyed with at the time.

  Melanie Martinez

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: nocountryfornewnashville.com

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• There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

  James Carroll

  Thinking, Fixed

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• It's hard to remember when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

  Dakota Fanning

  People, Insecurity, Looks

  "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Being sexy is inside of you. It's a confidence thing and learning how to embrace your flaws because everybody has their issues and things that they don't like about themselves.

  Carmen Electra

  Sexy, Issues, Embrace

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.

  Jim Goad

  Giving, People, Psychology

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Crime, Consent

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• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Law, Office

  "Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby". "News Hour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 4, 2014.

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• Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Love You, Stills, Loses

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• My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I do not work only in cases where there are no obstacles; but I glory in over-ruling the prevailing circumstances, and I take pleasure in bringing victories in those places where no victory is anywhere in sight.

  Frances J Roberts

  Sight, Victory, Done

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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• The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

  George Gilder

  Profound, Suffering, Theory

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.117, Regnery Publishing

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• Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

  Helene Grimaud

  Doe, Needs, Etc

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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