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    Julia Cameron
    “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, Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
    tags: perfectionism
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    George Leonard
    “To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.”
    ― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
    tags: learning, perfectionism
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  • #3
    “The desire for perfection often leads to the awakening of the Procrasdemon. Allowing yourself to make mistakes is the single most effective way to get rid of it.”
    ― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
    tags: artistic-perfection, perfectionism, perfectionist, procrasdemon, procrastinating-on-your-dreams, procrastinating-on-your-goals, procrastination, procrastination-quotes
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    “A pursuit for perfection is the most leading cause of procrastination in artists.”
    ― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
    tags: artists-life, perfection, perfectionism, procrasdemon, procrastinating-on-your-dreams, procrastinating-on-your-goals, procrastination-quotes
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  • #5
    “Isn’t it a relief to hear that what might not be perfect for you might be perfect for someone else?”
    ― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
    tags: perfection, perfection-quotes, perfectionism
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  • #6
    “Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.”
    ― Roy Bennett
    tags: authentic-living, authentic-self, authenticity, confidence, flaws, forgive, forgiveness, happiness, happiness-quotes, happy, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, learning, life, life-lessons, life-quotes, mistakes, perfectionism
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    Brené Brown
    “Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think? Perfectionism is a hustle.”
    ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
    tags: perfectionism
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  • #8
    “Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.”
    ― Darryl Stewart Wellness
    tags: ashamed, brene-brown, fear, perfectionism, shame
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  • #9
    Vincent van Gogh
    “If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie… That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh, Ever Yours: The Essential Letters
    tags: perfectionism
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    Brené Brown
    “Perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life-paralysis.”
    ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
    tags: perfectionism
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “Imperfection facilitates improvement, perfection facilitates stagnation.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
    tags: growth, imperfection, improvement, life-lessons, perfection, perfectionism, perfectionist, rigidity, self-improvement
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    Tony Warrick
    “A small step of progression is a thousand times better than a delayed step of perfection. Perfectionism procrastinates and paralyzes progress.”
    ― Tony Warrick
    tags: delayed, perfection, perfectionism, progression
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    Alfred de Musset
    “Perfection does not exist. To understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; the desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.”
    ― Alfred de Musset
    tags: perfectionism
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “There is no place for perfection in a civilized society, for anything that claims perfection, ends up claiming supremacy.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
    tags: bigotry, civilized-behavior, growth, life-lessons, perfection, perfectionism, perfectionist, progress
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “We may accept a falsity that doesn't claim perfection, but we must never accept anything that claims perfection, not even a truth.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
    tags: imperfections, perfection, perfectionism, perfectionist
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    J.S. Felts
    “Until you realize perfection is an ideal and not a reality, you will never have self-confidence.”
    ― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
    tags: perfection, perfectionism, perfectionist, self-confidence
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “An artist obsessed with perfection is bound to dim the light of his art.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
    tags: artists, creative-process, editing-uniqueness, perfectionism, perfectionist, procrastination-writingadvice, publication, spontaneity
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  • #18
    Frank Sonnenberg
    “You’d be perfect if you weren’t a perfectionist.”
    ― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
    tags: perfection, perfection-quotes, perfectionism, perfectionist, perfectionist-quotes, perfectionists
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  • #19
    Curtis Tyrone Jones
    “People often miss out on human genius because they're trying to be more perfect than the gods.”
    ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
    tags: analysis-paralysis, criticism, critics, genius, genius-thinkers, looking-down-on-others, perfectionism, prideful, stuck-up, think-different
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    Curtis Tyrone Jones
    “People often miss out on their own human genius because they’re trying to be more perfect than the gods.”
    ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
    tags: analysis-paralysis, creativity, genius, inner-critic, judgemental, perfectionism, perfectionist, potential, self-criticism, self-love
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  • #21
    Chrétien de Troyes
    “How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.”
    ― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations
    tags: opportunity, perfectionism, prevarication
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  • #22
    “Without a deadline, your work is never over. The power of deadlines leads your work to completion. What is done poorly is better than what is 20% done perfectly assuming person operates on a progress-driven mindset. Then you can improve to make things less bad faster.”
    ― Thomas Vato
    tags: deadlines, mindset, perfection, perfectionism, productivity, progress, work-ethic-quotes, work-ethics, work-hard
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  • #23
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Everything is idea, nothing is ideal.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
    tags: ideal, idealism, perfection, perfectionism
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    Laurence Galian
    “Do not let perfection and order become your masters! These are the two most dangerous traps set for the spiritual Murid. True spirituality proceeds from an honoring and awareness of chaos and imperfection. Who would dare untangle a rainforest?”
    ― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
    tags: chaos, imperfection, murid, order, perfection, perfectionism, true-spirituality
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    Marie Forleo
    “Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true:

    You're just not good enough.”
    ― Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable
    tags: fear, fear-quotes, marie-forleo-quotes, not-good-enough, perfect, perfection, perfectionism
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    B.B. Warfield
    “Perfectionism is impossible in the presence of a deep sense or a profound conception of sin.”
    ― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Studies in Perfectionism
    tags: christian-perfectionism, hannah-whitall-smith, higher-life, keswick, perfectionism, sin
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  • #27
    “Flaws are what make us human. Accepting our flaws and forgiving ourselves for our mistakes and reconciling those conflicting parts of ourselves is crucial to our health and happiness.”
    ― Michelle C Kuei
    tags: beauty, bravery, courage, inspirational, perfectionism, perfectlynormal
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  • #28
    “We're going to have to bust down the door on the myth of perfectionism. We're going to have to call it what it really is: fear.”
    ― Karen Rinaldi, It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters
    tags: fear, perfectionism
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    N. Daniel
    “During the past few years I had come to understand that there were two kinds of perfection. The first was the natural cycle in which we live, where things rise and fall like the changing of the tides; a perfection which nevertheless contained death, putrefaction and filth. The second, an imaginary place that was created perfect and sentenced to remain so in an impermanent world, as clear and brittle as glass, for the ideal was a place, a locus, even when its template applied to living beings.”
    ― N. Daniel, Corners Untouched by Madness: A Personal Journey of Overcoming Mental Illness
    tags: perfection, perfectionism
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    Vironika Tugaleva
    “To be courageous, we must be willing to surrender our perfectionism, if only for a moment. If my self-worth is attached to being flawless, why would I ever try to learn anything new? After all, learning requires mistakes.”
    ― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
    tags: courage, learning, let-go-quotes, mistakes, perfectionism, perfectionist, self-acceptance, self-worth, surrender
    9 likes



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