Imperfection Tolerance Quotes

There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.

Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelled shorter: ‘Paralysis.’

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

[J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent accents, because people are imperfect by nature. So in the end, what you do is, you do an inhabitation and not an imitation.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.