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Perfectionism Quotes
"Drop the idea that you need to be perfect. You are already complete."
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"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
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"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
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"I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others!"
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"Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood."
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"The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect."
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"There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is - Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't."
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"I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think, I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice."
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