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Tag Name "Perfectionism" (81)

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Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.
Brené Brown
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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 D. Burns
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Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet B. Braiker
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Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.
John Eliot
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Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
Alanis Morissette
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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Marie Angelique Arnauld
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Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think?
Brené Brown
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
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If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
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Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.
Maria Shriver
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
Veronica Roth
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When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.
William Westney
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
Robert Hillyer
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When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and super performers at work - and all at the same time. That's stressful.
Kristina Schroder
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
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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
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Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.
Danny Boyle
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
Samuel Johnson
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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
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