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• I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it doesn't mean it's a failure-you just think, I wish it could be better than this. Sometimes I cannot achieve what I really want to do in just one collection, so in the following collection I do it again. There are certain things I've been working on for three years.

  Junya Watanabe

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, People, Literature

  1925 The Common Reader, 'George Eliot'.

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Book

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• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Healing, Ignorance, Decision

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• We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.216, Shambhala Publications

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• Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

  William Gurnall

  Saint, May, Bears

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.563

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• 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, Grace

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• I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

  John Foster Dulles

  Dream, Believe, Years

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• ... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

  George Eliot

  Painting, Insight, Staring

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

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• The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. If we were perfect we wouldn't be the Church. I think it's the imperfections that allow people to trust that you're working (toward) something.

  Dolores Hart

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  "From Elvis to Jesus: Mother Dolores Hart talks about her extraordinary journey from a blossoming career in Hollywood to something quite different". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

  John Slattery

  Beautiful, Mistake, Self Esteem

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.

  Lisette Model

  Style, Snapshots, Lovers

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection

  Mulla Sadra

  Rooms, Existence, Non Existence

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

  Walter Raleigh

  Evil, Shadow, Vices

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• Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

  Gay Talese

  Passion, Games, People

  Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.1, Random House

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• Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

  Katherine Moennig

  Stage, Audience

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• I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

  Cher

  Mistake, Voice, My Own

  "New Again: Cher". Interview with Bob Colacello and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Art, Fall, Men

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• Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.

  Valentina

  Fighting, Worst

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• I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them. I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am.

  Aly Raisman

  Athlete, Insecure, Thinking

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• It's okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do.

  Camila Cabello

  Real, People, Perfect

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• So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mistake, May, Next

  "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking", 2010.

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• The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Perfection, Noble

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• Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.

  Mark Levin

  Liberty, Weakness, Population

  Mark R. Levin (2012). “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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