Flaws Quotes - Page 29

• The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

  Christine Jennings

  Vision, Fiction, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Reality, Long Walks, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

  Bruce Schneier

  Cards, Matter, Process

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• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fun, Loser, Contradiction

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.15, Random House

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• I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

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• That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Thinking, Simple

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Explains What Everyone Gets Wrong About ‘Soul Mates’", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2014.

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• I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

  Denise Mina

  Thinking, Negative, Humans

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• A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Gun, Men, America

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• Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw -- if uncorrected -- may prove to be the more catastrophic.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Reality, Long

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• I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Personality, Trying

  "'Star Trek's' Damon Lindelof on 'Star Wars' Influences and His 'Fatal Flaw'". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2013.

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• All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Autumn, Clothes, Perfection

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.658, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws

  Lucinda Riley

  Mask

  Lucinda Riley (2012). “The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

  Jacob Collins

  Anxiety, Finishing, Glimpse

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• We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Healthy, Ordinary

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• Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

  Scott McClellan

  Thinking, People, Attributes

  "McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

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• It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.

  David Trumble

  Unique, Individuality

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• No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Hate, Character

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• Couples who make it aren't the ones who never had a reason to get divorced; they are simply the ones who decided early on that their commitment to each other was always going to be bigger than their differences and their flaws.

  Dave Willis

  Couple, Commitment, Differences

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 09, 2017

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• One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Eye, Player

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• Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

  Jay Crownover

  Unique, People, And Love

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• The same energy used to point out someone's flaws, can be used to work on your own.

  Mark Sutton

  Energy, Used

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• It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Spirit, Endeavor

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love is stripped away, we see the real person clearly. There revealed to us, with all their flaws, their foibles, and their secrets.

  Lionel

  Real, Love Is, Secret

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• Count your blessings not your flaws

  Lauren Aquilina

  Blessing, Count Your Blessings, Glass Half Full

  Song: King, 2012

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