Imperfection Quotes - Page 16

• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Self, Deny, True Man

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• By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

  Zeno of Elea

  Men, Silence, My Own

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• It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Complaining, Littles, Little Things

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• What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Courage, Mean, Peaceful

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• I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Real, Mean

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• I do think imperfection's underrated.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Perfection, Underrated

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• In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

  Ville Valo

  Eye, Perfection

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• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Support, Political

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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• I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Faults, Flaws

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• False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Piano, Perfect, Doe

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• The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

  Richard Pascale

  Inspirational, Educational, Real

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• From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

  Criss Jami

  Art, Recovery, Perfect

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Years, Long, Perfection

  "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.

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• The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.

  Chinua Achebe

  Teacher, Past, Night

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.

  Taylor Mali

  Fall, Perfect, Want

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• The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Perfection, Misery

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• Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.

  Kerry Washington

  Unique, Celebrate, Embrace

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• We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be.

  Gigi Graham

  Christian, Real, Blessing

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

  Steven Weber

  Math, Austerity, Shifting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Inward

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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