Imperfectability Quotes & Sayings

I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current ... " It may not be the recipe for a life of contentment, but that imperfectability is what makes writing such an engaging endeavor, something you can do for the rest of your life and not get bored. — Debra Dean

Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed — Linkin Park

I wasn't going to kiss you."
"You wern't."
"Nope. The next time I kiss you I'm gonna take my time... — Simone Elkeles

New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish "women's work" from real careers. — Ariel Levy

Wonder Woman is a lot of fun to draw. — Jim Lee

Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians believe that Jesus died so we may live. He took upon himself our sins so that we may be forgiven and thereby gave us a model of forgiveness for others. This is a cycle that allows civility and progress in the face of man's faults and imperfectability. — Cory Bernardi

Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance. — Theodore Dalrymple

The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end. — Tye Sheridan

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl. — Gabrielle Reece

Shelley, you think she'll take me back?" Alex asks her, his hair dangerously close to her fingers. She doesn't pull his hair . . . just pats his head gently. I feel the tears running down my cheeks at full speed.
"Yeah!" Shelley yells with a goofy, gummy grin. She looks happier and more content than she's been in a long time. Both of my favorite people are with me right here; what more could I ask for? — Simone Elkeles

All you have to do is revise your point of view. Instead of trying to achieve perfection, simply relax and enjoy human imperfectability. With that perspective you achieve the ultimate godhead. You see man as infinite possibility always in the process of becoming. You see finally that man, in emulating the creative process, is nothing less than God. — Robert H. Rimmer

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination. — Henry James

For centuries humanism has been convincing us that we are the ultimate source of meaning, and that our free will is therefore the highest authority of all. — Yuval Noah Harari