Perfect Quotes - Page 34

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

You don't have to be perfect to be a popstar.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed.

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...

Allow yourself to be happy right now, even if outside circumstances seem imperfect. Waiting for everything to be "perfect" means delaying the happiness that you are meant to enjoy now. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy this very moment . . .now.

Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.