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The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete. -- Kazuaki Tanahashi
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. -- Ernst Fischer
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. -- Djuna Barnes
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
It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections - that's what makes you unique. -- Hayley Hasselhoff
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't. -- Steve Harvey
With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to. -- Adam Driver
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
So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there. -- Mary J. Blige
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. -- Branford Marsalis
I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard. -- Luke Scott
The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted. -- Hailee Steinfeld
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. -- Edward Dahlberg
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected. -- Stockwell Day
In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself. -- Sonakshi Sinha
The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life. -- Eugene Kennedy
The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in. -- Kathryn Minshew
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It's like, without it, I'm not me. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can't stress that enough. -- Terry Crews
Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect. -- Brene Brown
Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. -- Harry S. Truman
Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time. -- Harry S. Truman
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. -- William Howard Taft
I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect. -- Ron Paul
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends. -- Ted Dekker
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. -- William Howard Taft
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. -- Cynthia Heimel
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. -- Alexander Hamilton
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. -- Oscar Wilde
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. -- Oscar Wilde
I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way. -- James Weston
He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew. -- Richelle Mead
God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will. -- Elizabeth George
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. -- Owen Feltham
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. -- Charles Spurgeon
...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan. -- George S. Patton
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious. -- Haruki Murakami
Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world. -- Winston Churchill
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect. -- Sonam Kapoor
Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition. -- Paul Samuelson
I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. -- Amanda Bynes
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. -- John Owen
A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. -- Dave Willis
We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God -- Gary Thomas
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life. -- Drew Barrymore
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. -- B. C. Forbes
Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way. -- Kendal Rob
A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Sam Keen
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Sam Keen
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Sam Keen
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect. -- William Blake
While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy. -- John Spence
People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people. -- Shaun Hutchinson
It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect. -- Yasmin Ahmad
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect. -- James Madison
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. -- Isaac Asimov
God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love. -- Joshua L. Liebman
Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin. -- Timothy Keller
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. -- Dave Meurer
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. -- Myles Munroe
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity -- Thomas Hardy
I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature. -- Sri Chinmoy
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg. -- Sara Genn
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection! -- Laozi
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. -- Haruki Murakami
An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. -- Kerry Washington
No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect. -- Lokendra Singh
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late. -- Andre Maurois
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. -- Rajneesh
The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way. -- John D. Rockefeller
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. -- Hermann Hesse
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. -- Hermann Hesse
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
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. -- Marcello Malpighi

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