Imperfection Quotes - Page 8

• If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

  Eric Cantona

  Perfect, Important, Looks

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• Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

  Kevin O'Leary

  War, Team, Winning

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• We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beauty

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

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• The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.

  Sienna Miller

  People, Secret, Flaws

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Experience

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

  Diane Kruger

  Acting, Cameras, Looks

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• Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

  David Hume

  Reason, Natural, Persons

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.548

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  I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

  Kesha

  Celebrate, Embrace

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Perfect, Doe

  "Perry to GOP Convention: Not Riding Into Sunset" by Morgan Smith, www.texastribune.org. June 7, 2012.

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• It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

  Duke of Wellington

  Business

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• Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

  John Marin

  Art, Perfection, Why Not

  "John Marin".

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• SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Enemy, Vices

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

  Norman Cousins

  Moving, Men, Essence

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• Imperfections create character.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Character

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• Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Perfect, Deeds, Accomplished

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.163, Baen Books

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Criticism, Finals, Attention

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• I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Imperfect World, Growth

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• She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.

  Amy Tan

  Character, Eye, Men

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• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Married, Realizing, Psychologist

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• Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Quality, Looks

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• The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Attention, Darcy, Performances

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.41

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• As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

  Hjalmar Branting

  War, Two, Risk

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• The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

  Richard Rohr

  Order, Perfection, Joy

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• My imperfections will never override God’s promises. God’s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Promise, Use, Ability

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.

  David Bayles

  Lying, Matter, Next

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