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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

  Beth Moore

  Art, Insecurity, Form

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.19, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

  Anne Lamott

  Life Is, Clutter, Shows

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.

  Gary Zukav

  Order, Perfection, Different

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 08, 2012

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• My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Teacher, Perfect One, Perfection

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• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  Hannah Arendt

  Order, Trying, Goes On

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• Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.

  Caroline Myss

  Acceptance

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• Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Mistake, Thinking, Perfect

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• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Men, Perfection

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• Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

  Michael Hyatt

  Mother, Procrastination

  FaceBook post by Michael Hyatt from May 21, 2012

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• But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

  Emily Giffin

  Inspirational, What Matters, Perfection

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.304, Macmillan

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• Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

  Brené Brown

  Painful Feelings, Self, Perfect

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.111, Penguin

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Possible And Impossible, Perfection

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

  David D. Burns

  Fear, Perfection, Humans

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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Piano, Perfect, Doe

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• But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Feels

  "Fears of a clown" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Perfection, Excellence, Quality

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Perfection, Laziness

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.185

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• Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

  Anne Lamott

  True Friend, Mean, Artist

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.32, Anchor

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• Perfectionism is slow death.

  Hugh Prather

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.38, Bantam

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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humility, Perfection, Dull

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Mars, Strive

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.436

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• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Teacher, Art

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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