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Perfection Quotes (displaying: 1 - 30 of 558 quotes )

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Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off
Augusten Burroughs
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Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.
Julia Cameron
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Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
Lew Wallace
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Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
R. D. Laing
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.
Anne Lamott
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Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Anne Lamott
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perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
Hugh Prather
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life ...
Anne Lamott
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
Julia Cameron
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
David D. Burns
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Anne Lamott
Perfectionists are their own devils.
Jack Kirby
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
Lao Tzu
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
Anne Lamott
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Marcus Aurelius
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perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
Henry Rollins
Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.
Les Brown
Perfection should not have come quite so soon.
Jane Austen
Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.
Eduardo Galeano
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Jerry Moran
Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.
Kelly Millar
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton
Perfection itself is imperfection.
Vladimir Horowitz
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire