Quotes About Not Expecting Perfection

#1. Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#2. At this time, about the only thing that was still regarded as perverted was a public display of affection toward one's wife.

John Maddox Roberts

#3. Keep healthy. The longer you live, the smaller the fraction of your life was spent in school.

C.C. Phillips

#4. Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Sheryl Sandberg

#5. The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

Albert Einstein

#6. Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Emilio Estevez

#7. If you just stop expecting perfection from everyone and everything, you might see the good stuff outweighs the bad. And then someday you'll look in the mirror and see the same thing. Because the person you're most disappointed in is yourself.

Erin Lange

#8. Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Eddie Vedder

#9. Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Dave Eggers

#10. Then why, Michael asked "are you expecting perfection out of yourself? Do you really think you're that much better than the rest of us? That your powers make you a higher quality of human being? That your knowledge places you on a higher plane than everyone else on this world?

Jim Butcher

#11. There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are.

Jeff Wilson

#12. The American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.

George Friedman

#13. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. I thank God for the grace to be Dr. Mrs. Lailah Gifty Akita.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

Joan D. Chittister

#16. Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

Kevin DeYoung

#17. And you could try to stop pretending to be so fucking perfect. Maybe then people will stop expecting perfection all the time

Santino Hassell

#18. I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Neil Diamond

#19. We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Os Guinness

#20. Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#21. When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Donald Miller