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Perfectionism Quotes

"The best is the enemy of the good"
Voltaire
"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."
Philip Roth
"We are always haunted by the idea that we could have worked harder or done better. But that is our human condition."
Sigmund Freud
"There’s no such thing as perfect, you just have to execute and then learn and adjust."
Gary Vaynerchuk
"Everything stinks till it's finished."
Dr. Seuss
"Delay is preferable to error"
Thomas Jefferson
"It's better to do something badly than to not do it at all"
Jordan Peterson
"Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen."
Arianna Huffington
"If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it, then you’ve got to let it go"
Sara Blakely
"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late"
reid hoffman
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Losing is losing. There aren't different degrees of losing. You either win a championship or you're shit. It's very black and white to me."
Kobe Bryant
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
Maurice Switzer
"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless achiever is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection"
Arianna Huffington
"I do think about if I didn’t have all this makeup on and I would never be able to be seen by a man but no, I don’t think I really have had that pressure of needing to look perfect"
Kylie Jenner
"I don't like losers"
Donald Trump
"We all have impossibly high standards"
Steve Carell
"I tend to overthink things and that makes me do complicated stuff"
Steve Carell
"Done is better than perfect"
Sheryl Sandberg
"Whatever you do, it's never enough."
Naomi Watts