Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect…

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in…

— Robert Hillyer

“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you…

— David Foster Wallace

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a…

— Ivy Lee

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and…

— Bob Parsons

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

— Sara Genn

In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost…

— Rex Reed

“Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as…

— Robert Fisk

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

— Winston Churchill

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

— Richard Rohr

The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do…

— Anthony Glees

I've often wondered about the shyness of some of us in the West about standing for these ideals that have done so much to…

— Ronald Reagan

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

— Ellis Peters

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so…

— Christopher Dawson