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• Perfectionism: Refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. Oxford Dictionary
• Perfect: Having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be. Oxford Dictionary
• Perfect: Complete and correct in every way, of the best possible type or without fault. Cambridge Dictionary
• Perfect: Being entirely without fault or defect. Merriam Webster
• Perfect: Corresponding to an ideal standard.  Merriam Webster
• Perfect: Excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement. Dictionary.com
• Excellence,  Procrastination,  Shame,  Approval seeking,  Criticism,  Rejection

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Perfection is an illusion; impossible to attain

• Perfection is the absolute lowest standard you can ever have for yourself because it’s impossible to attain. Tony Robbins
• Perfection’ is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.”  David Burns
• The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes. Haridas Chaudhuri
• Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
• Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. William Safire
• When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target. George Fisher
• It’s not that perfection cannot be achieved. It’s that it’s so hard to stop there. Robert Brault
• Perfection does not exist; to comprehend it is the triumph of human intelligence; to desire to possess it, the most dangerous of follies. Open your window, Octave; do you not see the infinite? You try to form some idea of a thing that has no limits, you who were born yesterday and who will die to-morrow?… Perfection, my friend, is no more made for us than infinity. We must seek for nothing in it, demand nothing of it, neither love nor beauty, happiness nor virtue…. Alfred de Musset
• Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. Samuel McChord Crothers
• It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. Samuel Johnson
• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. William Faulkner
• Illusion

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Perfectionism is a major cause of procrastination and immobilisation

• Don’t let the desire for perfection become procrastination. Danielle LaPorte
• Procrastination follows perfectionistic or overwhelming demands and a fear that even minor mistakes will lead to devastating criticism and failure. Neil Fiore
• The maxim ‘Nothing but perfection’ may be spelled ‘Paralysis’. Winston Churchill
• Perfectionism is the enemy of creation. John Updike
• If you demand of yourself a perfect presentation, a project that is beyond criticism, perfect adherence to a diet, or a spotless home, you are setting yourself up for defeat and inevitable self-criticism. The more perfectionist and self-critical you are, the harder it is to start on a project that you already know will never be quite good enough. Holding on to an image of perfection will make you afraid of seeing what your real product will look like, it will keep you from preparing for failure with a plan that helps you bounce back, and it will increase your tendency to abandon your project when confronted with a normal problem in the developmental process. Ironically, being a perfectionist and criticizing yourself about mistakes makes failures more likely and worse. Neil Fiore
• A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection. Donald Kennedy
• The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. George Will
• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.   John Henry Newman
• To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
• Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. Cardinal Newman
• Procrastination

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Perfectionism wastes time and energy

• The battle to keep up appearances unnecessarily, the mask – whatever name you give creeping perfectionism – robs us of our energies. Robin Worthington
• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic and a terrible waste of time.  Edwin Blissbert
• Time,  Energy management

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Perfectionism hampers the accomplishment of great things

• The quest for perfection will stop you from getting results throughout your life.  Joe Vitale
• Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.  Brené Brown
• A person determined never to be wrong won’t likely accomplish much. Ken Wisdom
• Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things. La Rochefoucauld, François
• The quest for perfection will stop you from getting results throughout your life. Realize right now that perfection is a relative term.  What seems perfect to you will seem flawed to someone else; what seems perfect to them will seem ridiculous to you.  It’s all a matter of opinion. Do the best you can and let go.  History will judge what you have done. And more often than not, it will forget and forgive all of us. Enjoy the journey.  It’s perfect as it is.  All is well.  Joe Vitale
• A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done. John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Achievement,  Greatness

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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation and inspiration

• Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. John Updike
• Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. Ann Lamont
• Creativity,  Inspiration

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Perfectionism is the enemy of trying new things

• 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
• A primary reason people don’t do new things Is because they want to be able to do them perfectly–first time. It’s completely irrational, impractical, not workable–and yet, it’s how most people run their lives. John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
• Experimentation,  Explore new approaches

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Perfectionism causes unhappiness and a poor self-image

• If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. Leo Tolstoy
• Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Harriet Braiker
• Nothing gives a man a sense of failure so often as an overdeveloped sense of perfection. George S. Odiorue
• There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. Rumi
• Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.  David Burns
• I’ve yet to meet an absolute perfectionist whose life was filled with inner peace. The need for perfection and the desire for inner tranquility conflict with each other. Whenever we are attached to having something a certain way, better than it already is, we are, almost by definition, engaged in a losing battle. Rather than being content and grateful for what we have, we are focused on what’s wrong with something and our need to fix it.  When we are zeroed in on what’s wrong, it implies that we are dissatisfied, discontent.  Richard Carlson
• Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate. Maria Shriver
• There is no such thing as a happy perfectionist.
• Unhappiness,  Self-esteem

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Perfectionism can be downright harmful

• Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.  Brené Brown
• 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
• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Hannah Arendt

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Perfectionism comes from impossibly high standards

• When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick. Bill Lemley
• Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary. Mignon McLaughlin
• Moreover, perfectionist standards do not allow for failure. They do not even allow for life, and certainly not death. Marion Woodman

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Perfectionism comes from being too hard on ourselves

• 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 is the voice of the oppressor. Anne Lamott
• When we get caught in the myth of perfectionism, we see our faults as glaring and horrible reminders that we are not as we should be, that we have failed and are indeed ourselves failures. This point of view doesn’t leave much room for humility, forgiveness, love, acceptance, or growth. In short, this view is pretty self-destructive.  Our imperfections are not the problem; our attitude toward them is.  This negative attitude toward the reality of imperfection is fertile ground for self-hate and negativism toward others.  Anne Wilson Schaef
• Perfectionism is self abuse of the highest order. Anne Wilson Schaef

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Perfectionism has fear at its root …

• At its root, perfectionism isn’t really about a deep love of being meticulous. It’s about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others. Fear of failure. Fear of success.  Michael Law
• Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.  Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.  Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.  David M. Burns
• I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it. Anne Lamott
• Fear

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… the fear of not being enough; not worthy of love…

• 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
• Perfectionism has its roots in the desire… and need… to be accepted. Perfectionists have been trained to approach everything they do in ways that will impress the people they care about. They want to impress them so much so that those people will want to take them to themselves and never let them go.  Rather than being taught to accept themselves, they were trained to make themselves SO socially acceptable to others that that is their only focus.  Rhoberta Shaler
• Our culture has a serious mental health problem:  The belief in the illusion of perfectibility. A perfectionist’s inability to accept human frailty and error causes serious emotional problems.  Adult perfectionism has its roots in unrealistic parental demands and conditional love.  You will be loved only if you perform. Parents who are never satisfied with their children’s accomplishments raise children who are never satisfied with themselves.  The issue is not high standards, which we all would support.  The issue is a pattern destructive to health and relationships.  Perfectionists can change.  See if you can identify the critical voice in your head.  Try to be less competitive.  Stop keeping score.  Try not to pass it along to others, especially your children.  You may find that if you allow others more consideration, you may also be able to give some to yourself.  Jennifer James
• The pursuit of perfection has become a major addiction of our time. Fortunately, perfection is learned.  No one is born a perfectionist, which is why it is possible to recover.  I am a recovering perfectionist.  Before I began recovering, I experienced that I and everyone else was always falling short, that who we were and what we did was never quite good enough.  I sat in judgment on life itself.  Perfectionism is the belief that life is broken.  Few perfectionists can tell the difference between love and approval.  Perfectionism is so widespread in this culture that we actually have had to invent another word for love.  “Unconditional love,” we say.  Yet, all love is unconditional. Anything else is just approval.  Rachel Naomi Remen
• The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love. Bernard Grasset
• Shame,  Self-worth

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… the fear of judgement and disapproval…

• 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
• Healthy striving is self-focused: “How can I improve?” Perfectionism is other-focused: “What will they think?”  Brené Brown
• Criticism,  Rejection

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… the fear of failing and making mistakes

• 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
• Mistakes

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Settle for good enough

• Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.  Rebecca Wells
• Settle for “good enough” rather than wasting time on unnecessary perfection. Stever Robbins
• Good enough is the new perfect. Becky Beaupre Gillespie
• Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Voltaire

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Beat perfectionism by being an effective imperfectionist

• Try to be imperfect. Intentionally do the first part of your project sloppily (don’t show it to your boss yet); do it fast and inadequately. Neil Fiore
• Follow Guy Kawasaki’s wisdom and “Think crappy!” Just get to work!! Identify the first milestone you want to hit. Just get to work! Then, as Kawasaki says, “Churn, baby, churn!” As you move forward from your first crappy version, “churn” it so it evolves into a more and more beautiful masterpiece. Brian Johnson
• Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later.” Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. Don’t expect perfection the first time or even the first few times. Brian Tracy
• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.  Robert H. Schuller
• Don’t be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Ray Dalio
• Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you got, and fix it along the way. Paul Arden
• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.   Confucius
• I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. Anatole France

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Strive for excellence and mastery; not perfection

• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic and a terrible waste of time.  Edwin Bliss
• Perfectionists are the losers in the game of life. Strive for excellence rather than the unachievable.  Geoffrey James
• The healthy pursuit of excellence, the genuine pleasure of meeting high standards, is often confused with perfectionism. Perfectionism is based on a painful illusion, the illusion of personal perfectibility, people measured entirely by production or accomplishment.  Perfectionists lose sight of the quality of life in their search for quantity.  Order ends up taking precedence over relationships.  Their expectations are more important than acceptance and love.  They can see only perfect and imperfect, so they are unable to enjoy any activity or person that would leave them in between.  Perfect performance becomes confused with perfect love.  They are never satisfied.  They never really feel safe or loved.  Recognize perfection as an illusion, not a desirable way to live.  Don’t confuse it with excellence.  Enjoy your successes, laugh at your failures and learn from them.  Relax, become less competitive and critical.  Enjoy life instead of controlling it.  Jennifer James
• Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
• Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection–in practically anything–is both neurotic and futile.–Edwin Bliss
• Perfection does not exist in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Angelique Arnauld
• Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. William Shakespeare, King Lear
• Excellence

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Accept your own imperfections

• Accept yourself as you are right now. I may not be perfect, but I am okay just the way I am. Richard Carlson
• Instead of trying to achieve perfection, simply relax and enjoy human imperfectability. With that perspective you achieve the ultimate godhead. obert H. Rimmer
• To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. Sandra Bierig
• There are none so tense as those who try to be outwardly perfect. There is great release in acknowledging your foibles and laughing at your mistakes. Ervin Seale
• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen
• You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. Amy Bloom
• Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect. Lao Tzu
• Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.  Rosalynn Carter
• Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism…confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. David M. Burns
• You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made. Abiola Abrams

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After all, there is no such thing as a perfect being

• Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn. Paulo Coelho
• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers… even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it. Abraham Maslow
• There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. Rumi
• The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them.  They’re wedded.   Henry Miller
• There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. Pen Densham
• Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect – and that is completely all right. We are who we are – and so is everyone else. Joan Chittister

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In fact, to be perfect is to be sterile and boring

• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. Somerset Maugham
• Congratulations! You’re not perfect! It’s ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody’s ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong — which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you’re not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they’re really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs ’em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they’re a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. Stephen Manes
• Boredom

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Accept the imperfections of others

• We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen
• It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections. Daisaku Ikeda
• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
• No one is flawless, and if you expect perfection from a partner you are either delusional or narcissistic. Jean Twenge & Keith Campbell
• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller
• I’m far from perfect, but I’ll be perfect for that imperfect person that’s perfect for me. Amanda Bynes
• You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. Jodi Picoult
• If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. Leo Tolstoy
• When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.  Bill Lemley
• Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirksJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Nobody’s perfect, and our fondest memories of anyone are of the amusing ways they proved it. Robert Brault
• Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. Chinese Proverb
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We – and our lives – are already perfect exactly as they are, perfectly imperfect

• I know that God doesn’t make mistakes, so whatever levels of personal strength and intellectual proficiency I possess are absolutely perfect. In short, I’m content, grateful for who I am and all that I’ve been given. Wayne Dyer
• A powerful realization that has helped me is simply this: You’re already good enough, you already have more than enough, and you’re already perfect. Leo Babauta
• Gently remind yourself that life is okay the way it is, right now. In the absence of your judgment, everything would be fine. As you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you’ll begin to discover the perfection in life itself. Richard Carlson
• You are already perfect. You don’t have to listen to anything that doubts that. Inadequacy is just a thought. Bentinho Massaro
• Think of yourself as a perfect being among perfect beings, and meet every person as an equal, not as either a superior or an inferior. Wallace D. Wattles
• We think that you misunderstand the task because you’re looking at yourself as flawed and in need of a cleaning, and we’re looking at you as perfect and in need of awareness that you’re perfect. Abraham-Hicks
• Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.  Osho
• Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect. Eckhart Tolle
• Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop! Gangaji
• Perfectionsim means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Anne Lamott
• False notes are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection. Vladimir Horowitz
• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy. John Ruskin

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Be honest about your imperfections with others

• LAW 46:  Never Appear Too Perfect.  Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.   Robert Green
• Pretense of perfection destroys intimacy in relationships. Christian Pankhurst
• Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Let go of the need to have a perfect appearance

• Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look. The parameters of acceptability as far as physical appearance go are so limiting that only a handful of women actually fall into this category. And the rest of us are left to either squeeze ourselves into molds that don’t fit, hating ourselves all the while, or we just give up entirely. Yancy Lael
• It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.  Brené Brown
• Body image

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True beauty is never perfect

• A beautiful thing is never perfect. Proverb
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in its proportion. Francis Bacon
• The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. Havelock Ellis
• In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. Alice Walker
• There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. Shannon L. Alder
• Beauty

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Don’t wait for perfect conditions

• You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. Gary Ryan Blair

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• As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. Robert Brault
• I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle… In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing–not perfect. Henry Moore
• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo
• You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. Martha Graham
• Art

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• A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Proverb
• Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry David Thoreau
• It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly. Ray Dalio
• Nothing that is complete breathes. Antonio Porchia
• .. when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing. From the television show Ally McBeal
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A good garden may have some weeds. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia
• One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
• 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 despondency and laziness make them give it up as unattainable. Philip Dormer Chesterfield
• This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere. Marcus Aurelius
• Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. Maurice Setter
• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man does. Oscar Wilde
• Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen

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• Does “anal-retentive” have a hyphen?   Alison Bechdel
• The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.  Stanley J. Randall
• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect.  I wish they’d make up their minds.   Wilt Chamberlain
• No one is perfect — that’s why pencils have erasers.
• The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
• Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary. Mignon McLaughlin
• When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick. Bill Lemley
• Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. Ed Howe
• I beat myself up every day, without so much as a scratch. Terri Guillemets
• The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. Doug Larson
• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. Somerset Maugham
• He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. Italian Proverb

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