Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
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Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.
I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.
If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.
It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.
Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.
I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.
Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.
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