Flaws Quotes - Page 6

• Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.

  Alison Bechdel

  Mother, Father, Bars

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

  Amanda Burton

  Reality, Thinking, Magazines

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• Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

  Stephen Batchelor

  World, Embrace, Ambiguity

  Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.246, Spiegel & Grau

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• A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Writing, Perfection

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• People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Clever, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.393, A&C Black

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• Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

  Confucius

  Wise, Mistake, Failure

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity

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• Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

  Chuck Noll

  Football, Character, Nfl

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• When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Motivational, Judging, Looks

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• She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.

  Um Ki-joon

  Drama, Kids, Here And There

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• Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

  Charlaine Harris

  Mistake, Long, Perfect

  "Deadlocked". Book by Charlaine Harris, May 1, 2012.

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• I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, Sound, Rags

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• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, May, Causes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.293

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• Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Technology, Alive

  "My Universe: A Transcendent Reality". Book by Alex Vary, Part II, 2011.

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• Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Garden, Territory

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt; the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Children, Kids

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Science, Greatness

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Aren't we taught as kids that we're beautiful because we feel beautiful and not because someone else says so? You don't look like the model on the magazine cover but you can still be beautiful, so I can't say I really want to change anything. I'm happy with the flaws I have.

  Jeremy Renner

  Beautiful, Kids, Looks

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• I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

  Laura Dern

  Raised, Protagonists, Flawed

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• All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Hero, Great Hero

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• There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

  David Adams Richards

  Character, Men

  David Adams Richards (2013). “Mercy Among the Children: A Novel”, p.88, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The flaw is the thing we love.

  Gail Caldwell

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.72, Random House

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• Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but I have yet to find one in Fedor Emelianenko.

  Bas Rutten

  Motivational, Fighting, Games

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• Women are hard on themselves. I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

  Emily VanCamp

  Appreciate, Trying, Body

  "Emily VanCamp Talks Love, Flat Abs and Body Image" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Love your flaws, and own your quirks.

  Ariana Grande

  Love You, Quirks

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