Song 'Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio:
http://youtu.be/wdQLwx3VK7M

"Perfection does not guarantee success. You don't have to be perfect to succeed."
- Unknown

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."
- Vince Lombardi

To err is human.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/To+err+is+human

Interesting Fact:
In general, mature or experienced workers are expected to produce better/ higher quality work with fewer errors since they have been working for a longer period of time (and practice makes perfect).
Do you think this is true for fields such as information technology (IT) and nursing?

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection."
- Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you that practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."
- Winston Churchill

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."
- Robert H. Schuller

Should be helpful to procrastinators....

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
- John Henry Newman

Sometimes a person needs to feel perfect......

From the song 'Perfect' by Pink:

...Please don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than perfect.
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing,
You are perfect to me.

The word 'imperfect' actually spells 'I'm perfect' because everyone is perfect in their own imperfect ways."
- Anonymous

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."
-  Alden Nowlan

"A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections."
- Chinese Proverb

"We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection."
- Magdeleine Sable

"I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better."
- Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

"We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections."
- Sidney Poitier

LifeLessonsForAlldotcom: Imperfections are flaws and a person with imperfections is flawed but perfect for someone and something. Because of imperfections, there may be mistakes, struggles and failings.

Song 'Beautiful Disaster' by Kelly Clarkson:

http://youtu.be/AtmDISgztJM

From Admiral William McRaven's Commencement Speech on 10 Life Lessons from Navy SEAL Training:

Several times a week, the instructors would line up the class and do a uniform inspection.  It was exceptionally thorough.

Your hat had to be perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed and your belt buckle shiny and void of any smudges.

But it seemed that no matter how much effort you put into starching your hat, or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle—- it just wasn’t good enough.

The instructors would fine “something” wrong.

For failing the uniform inspection, the student had to run, fully clothed into the surfzone and then, wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand.

The effect was known as a “sugar cookie.” You stayed in that uniform the rest of the day—cold, wet and sandy.

There were many a student who just couldn’t accept the fact that all their effort was in vain.  That no matter how hard they tried to get the uniform right—it was unappreciated.

Those students didn’t make it through training.

Those students didn’t understand the purpose of the drill.  You were never going to succeed.  You were never going to have a perfect uniform.

Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie.

It’s just the way life is sometimes.

http://youtu.be/pxBQLFLei70

"Once you accept the fact that you are not perfect, then you develop some confidence."
- Rosalynn Carter

"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."
- Saint Augustine

"Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends."
- Chinese Proverb

Common job interview question in the US: What are your weaknesses?
What is your answer?

Song 'Nobody's Perfect' by Jessie J:
http://youtu.be/f0NnEDsPErM

"The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them.They're wedded."
- Henry Miller

Interesting..... 

"You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful!Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week."
- Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days.

"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice its knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and inperfection go together wonderfully."
- Matthew Fox

All things bright and beautiful....

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they are still beautiful."
- Alice Walker

From the song 'All of Me' by John Legend:

...All of me loves all of you,
All your curves and all your edges,
All your perfect imperfections.

http://youtu.be/pNyzWagLcJE

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect, it means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
- Unknown

"To love another human in all her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificient task... tremendous and foolish and human."
- Louise Erdrich, The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse

"If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection."
- Gunnar Bjornstrand

Theme for the week 3/29 - 4/4: Imperfection.