Eddie Vedder Quotes

I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

I am not strong on perfection.

I am someone who isn't always perfect.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

I'm not perfect. I'm not polished.

It took me a while to learn, but we are allowed to make mistakes and have flaws.

Last time I checked, no one is perfect.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

I'm not perfect.

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.

We make a mess of things sometimes but that doesn't make you bad - it makes you human.