Imperfect Outcomes Quotes

The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Government is the art of the momentarily feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

I like Spider-Man because he's become the most famous. He's the one who's most like me - nothing ever turns out 100 percent OK; he's got a lot of problems, and he does things wrong, and I can relate to that.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

If it bothers me on the page, I don't do it. If it attracts me on the page and moves me, makes me think a bit, makes me laugh, makes me cry, I'm interested in it. If it's there on the page, it means it's there and up to me to bring it out. I have done some films along the way that have been screwed up and not as good as they read. Some films that are not that good on the page turn into good movies. So I'm fallible is what I'm saying.