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Perfection itself is imperfection. -- Vladimir Horowitz
If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important. -- Eric Cantona
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life. -- John Ruskin
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. -- Marilyn Monroe
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. -- Soren Kierkegaard
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- Matthew Fox
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. -- Arianna Huffington
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. -- Annie Besant
Imperfection is relatable. -- Lauren Conrad
Imperfection means perfection hid. -- Robert Browning
Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom. -- Yochai Benkler
Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit -- Paul Travis
Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim. -- Ivor Cutler
Dont Abuse The Fact That Nobody Is Perfect For Your Over Imperfection. -- Cyc Jouzy
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks. -- Philip Yancey
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing. -- Tara Brach
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. -- Thomas Carlyle
Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight. -- Tupac Shakur
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation. -- Norman Cousins
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways. -- Marilyn
Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection. -- Elizabeth Banks
Your imperfections are what make you beautiful. -- Sandra Bullock
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. -- Conrad Hall
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. -- Saint Francis de Sales
To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps. -- Dejan Stojanovic
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. -- James Salter
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. -- Thomas de Quincey
We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves. -- Randy Bachman
There is no deformity But saves us from a dream. -- William Butler Yeats
My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection. -- Beyonce Knowles
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. -- Sidney Poitier
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect. -- Sonam Kapoor
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. -- Henry Petroski
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. -- Gerard Way
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. -- William Ellery Channing
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. -- Alice Walker
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. -- Ernst Fischer
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. -- Gustav Heinemann
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. -- David D. Burns
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. -- Ben Okri
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom. -- Thomas Sowell
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives. -- Steven Weber
I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect. -- Miley Cyrus
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. -- Wayne Dyer
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. -- H. G. Wells
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -- Alden Nowlan
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. -- Anais Nin
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. -- Thomas Aquinas
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
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
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. -- Albert Pike
There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. -- Matt Groening
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? -- Hugh Laurie
Existence is an imperfection. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I do think imperfection's underrated. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins. -- Philip James Bailey
Evil then results from imperfection. -- Philip James Bailey
We are perfect in our imperfection. -- Megan McCafferty
In my eyes, perfection is imperfection -- Ville Valo
The essence of man is imperfection. -- Norman Cousins
Man is not interesting without some imperfection -- Soichiro Honda
... imperfection would get me farther than perfection. -- Richelle Mead
Without imperfection, you or I would not exist. -- Stephen Hawking
The whole point about beauty is its imperfection. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction. -- Gregory Keyes
The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection. -- Swami Vivekananda
What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. -- Linn Ullmann
In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection -- Mulla Sadra
Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection. -- Nikki Sixx
To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection. -- John Abercrombie
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes. -- Chad Stahelski
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms. -- Frank Herbert
I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection. -- Ne-Yo
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. -- Carl Jung
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be. -- Katherine Center
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. -- Frederick Sommer
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. -- Saint Augustine
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. -- Wislawa Szymborska
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. -- Anatole France
Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection. -- Kij Johnson
Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection. -- Colleen McCullough
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. -- John Ruskin
If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection. -- Saint Francis de Sales
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... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection. -- George Eliot
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. -- Junot Diaz
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing. -- George Eliot
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection. -- Mary Schmich
We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy. -- Gail Caldwell
In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change. -- Tonto Dikeh
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. -- Oscar Wilde
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. -- Tara Brach
DARE TO COMPAREIf you're without imperfection, hurl the first insult at a challenged person Kamil Ali -- Kamil Ali
Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets. -- Jay Mohr
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature. -- Sri Aurobindo
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it. -- Michel de Montaigne
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection. -- Leonardo da Vinci
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand. -- Orhan Pamuk
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. -- Harold S. Kushner
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. -- Henry Miller
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others -- Francois Fenelon
why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. -- Annie Besant
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. -- Albert Pike
Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality isSpiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work. -- Sanjo Jendayi
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I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life. -- BrenÃ© Brown
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection. -- Vladimir Horowitz
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection. -- Jeremy Denk
Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting. -- Rajneesh
Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human. -- Patricia Arquette
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order. -- Richard Rohr

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