Imperfect Quotes - Page 11

• We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in a way that is totally nebulous and abstracted, this way of thinking about reality. And that's why I write the way I do - it's an almost immortal way to show dependence on the biological, the political, the moral parts of us. I say immortal because we now have to find new formats, new eloquences, and resolve within ourselves this "constructed" life, a life that is incomplete, imperfect.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Real, Choices, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

  Tom Barbash

  Memories, Believe, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.

  Michael Helm

  Ideas, Skulls, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Imperfection, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.

  Christine Jennings

  Past, America, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Class, Community, Shows

  "Truthmaking". 3:AM Magazine Interview, www.3ammagazine.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

  Will Arnett

  Play, Common Threads, People

  "Will Arnett Is Ready To Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I don't over-think my existence. I'm a very imperfect person, like most of us are. I'm also a very busy person. I have a family. I have a career. I'm a professor at NYU. I have a full life for which I feel grateful every day.

  Kasi Lemmons

  Grateful, Busy, Existence

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Two, Perfect, Inspire

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 23)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

  Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

  Order, Elements, Hundred

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• Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.

  Henry Cloud

  Exercise, People, Perfect

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2006). “God Will Make a Way: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Spiritual, Adventure, Dark

  Jason Augustus Newcomb, Lon Milo Duquette (2004). “The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power”, p.14, Weiser Books

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• It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Fall, Hero

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Optimistic, Errors, People

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• As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Long, Imperfection

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.332, Hoover Press

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• Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

  Maria Montessori

  Achievement, Causes, Born

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.5, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.

  Scott Joplin

  Real, Player, Light

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• Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

  George Soros

  Knowing, Needs, Regulation

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• First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Ideas, Firsts

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Self, Views, Law

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• Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

  Brené Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Compassion

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• However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

  Horace

  Names, Desire, Rich

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• All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Broken, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Maturity, Perfect

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