96 Imperfect Quotes for You to Enjoy

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. Frances Wright

Man Animal Single Mental Directed Only Imperfect Faculties He Knows Equally Exercise However His Curiously Who Lives Muscles

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. Friedrich Durrenmatt

Man Reality Imperfect He Always Endangered Creates

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Friedrich Nietzsche

Imperfect Never Tense Becomes Existence Really Present

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. Gelsey Kirkland

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. George Boole

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained. Henry Gray

Knowledge Anatomy Ancient Records Imperfect Trace Left Any Egyptians Ascertained

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want. James Salter

Down Fragments Out Find Exactly Hoping Exactly What Imperfect Write Perhaps Trying Maybe Want View Keep Portions

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect. Jaron Lanier

Sometimes Looking Ourselves About Imperfect Like Annoy Advertising Endeavors Human Interesting Interesting Thing Us Really Thing Things

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one. John Lahr

Life Work Meets Uncertain Imperfect Write Writer Writers Self Know Reader Always Authoritative Mean Them Page Stands Why

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science. John W. Henry

Science Imperfect Sport Any Choosing Players

America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow. Jon Lovett

Positive Life Government Needs Freedom You Conservative Worth Strong Liberal Meets Everything Danger Complex Says Some Voice Rational Imperfect Delusion Practical Sorrow Hubris Bulwark Fix America Movement Against Create Even Need

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live. Joseph Franklin Rutherford

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths. K. Flay

Love Music Bit Definitely Rapping Super Indie Imperfect Rock Sound Mix Lots Rhythmic Elements Things Core

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

Better First Important Few Startups Market Something Imperfect Perfect Most Most Important Thing Making Important Thing Continually Site Getting May The Most Important Then Product Believed Deeply Thing Start

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. Kelly Sue DeConnick

Better Heroes Striving Kind Imperfect Like Identify Them Aspiration

Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them. Kirsten Dunst

Love Me Woman Women Opportunity Out Kind Boring Seek Imperfect Inspired Had Allowed Performance Like Box Vulnerability Messy Always Pristine Women Are Roles Just Influence Where Little Them

The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them. Kirsten Dunst

Love Me Woman Women Opportunity Out Kind Seek Imperfect Inspired Had Allowed Performance Like Box Messy Always Women Are Roles Just Influence Where Little Them

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

People Cause Every Other Everything Out See Able Imperfect Perfect Like Mess Person So Many People Just Many Why

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Maxwell Maltz

You World Closed Doors Live Imperfect May The Doors Frontiers Shut

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