“The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.” PeopleNeedsFactsPerfectSecretLeaderAcceptingPoliticianSecret LifeShady Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior” PeopleGivingFactsBigsCausesDecisionPerfectBehaviorIntuitionDataDecision MakingApplicationNot Perfect Author:Laszlo Bock
“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.” FactsMightProcessPerfectCreationPaintingHabitPainterRetiringDissatisfactionCompletionInsufficiency Author:Lucian Freud
“We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsChildrenIdeasFactsLyingPerfectConversationBiggerOur ChildrenSevenSeven YearsPresentingUnsafeGrappling Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.” KnowsNeedsStillsMomentsFactsPerfectGreaterObviousGravesSublimeDisadvantagesVergeShort LivedPerfect Moments Author:Jose Saramago