Imperfection Quotations

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.

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

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?

I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

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.

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

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.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

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

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

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

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

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.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.

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.

I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

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

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.

Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

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.

It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

I have faith in my imperfections!

The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

[The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.

Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.

This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don’t be afraid of that.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

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.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Imperfections define perfection

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

Imperfections make someone perfect to me.

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.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

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.

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.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

Existence is an imperfection.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

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.

Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.