Imperfection Quotes - Page 13

• Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.

  Magdalena de Pazzi

  Temptation, Soul, Trials

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• The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.

  Jim Warner

  Jesus, Embrace, Defects

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• It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Doe, Disease

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fighting, Men, Perfect

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Perfect, Naturalism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we'll let them.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Perfect, Everyday

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• Look at me as an example. I don't have the best education or the best looks. Where I'm from in Nigeria is not entertainment driven, it's the northern part of Nigeria and over there they hardly pay attention to entertainment. I came out of that place to attain this level of success. I always say if I can get here with all of these imperfections then no one has the excuse to fail in life.

  Ice Prince

  Example, Looks, Attention

  Source: www.mobo.com

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• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

  Djuna Barnes

  Jealous, Heart, Bed

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.

  Felix Klein

  Teacher, Science, Long

  Felix Klein (2016). “Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint: Volume I: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis”, p.166, Springer

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• I think sometimes since we have so much technology today it's easy to overproduce things and perfect things in a way that's not really natural, and I've always really gravitated toward imperfections and just the essence of the thing.

  Amber Rubarth

  Technology, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Eye, Vision

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

  Emilio Estevez

  Beauty, Beautiful, Broken

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• The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

  Katherine Center

  Beauty, Human Condition, Humans

  Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.226, Ballantine Books

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• Because you and I have the power to impute beauty on anything under the sun. Because you become the labels you give yourself. If you declare you're beautiful - not despite your imperfections, but because of them - then you are.

  Bo Sanchez

  Beauty, Beautiful, Giving

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• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  Warren Beatty

  Teamwork, Wisdom, Fun

  "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why The Left Is Right". Book by William Martin, 2004.

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• Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

  Horace

  Poetry, Faults, Negligence

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 351, 18 BC.

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• In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Country, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.378

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• Do I have bad days? Absolutely. But there are ways to overcome these things and that's perhaps what I do differently: I don't allow myself to dwell day after day on my imperfections.

  Crystal Renn

  Bad Day, Overcoming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care much about the idea of normal - that's very abstract to me. I think that perfection is practically unattainable but imperfection is right at hand. So that's why I love monsters: because they represent a side of us we should actually embrace and celebrate.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Perfection, Church

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It's the rough diamond that dictates what you can get out of a diamond. You can't say, "I'm going to make this," or, "I'm going to make that." It's nature. Whatever nature gives us, we explore and we build on. We can't create something that is not in the stone, so we take away as many imperfections as we can. Sometimes, you can't take them all away. But mostly, our cut, our polish, the life we put into the stones, the beauty that we bring out is exceptional.

  Laurence Graff

  Cutting, Giving, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most important thing is that, when you work with somebody, you build a rapport with that person. They have a certain trust in you. You don't have to explain that much. It's very hard when you photograph someone who's a fresh face and then you don't work with them again for six months. All these people I work with over and over again have qualities that I love. There's something very free about them or there are some slight imperfections about them. I think the more you work with someone, the pictures get better and better.

  Craig McDean

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for. Stop-motion has a certain "grittieness" and is filled with imperfections, and yet their is an undeniable truth, that what you see really exits, even it if is posed by hand, 24 times a second. This truth is what I find most attractive about stop-motion animation.

  Henry Selick

  Beautiful, Truth Is, Attractive

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.

  Annie Baker

  People, Succeed, Becoming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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, Literature, Imperfect

  Source: therumpus.net

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