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Perfectionism Quotes

"We are always haunted by the idea that we could have worked harder or done better. But that is our human condition."
Sigmund Freud
"99% is the same as zero. If you are gonna do 99, stay home."
Will Smith
"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."
Philip Roth
"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy"
Steven Weinberg
"You don't need a backup plan if you just do it right the first time"
Post Malone
"I can’t stand to see a thing half done. If a thing’s wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry ineffectually."
William Faulkner
"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly"
Robert H. Schuller
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be"
Edgar Allan Poe
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good"
John Steinbeck
"The first draft of anything is shit"
Ernest Hemingway
"Perfection is not just a like for self-improvement, though. Perfectionism is a high-end, haute couture version of fear"
Elizabeth Gilbert
"I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the least. It's so boring to be perfect."
Madonna
"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
Hannah Arendt
"I wanted the whole world or nothing."
Charles Bukowski
"God created man, but I could do better."
Erma Bombeck
"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
William Shakespeare
"We feel lonely when we think we are supposed to be in community with others, but we are trapped behind a facade of perfection."
Brene Brown
"I just want things to work properly."
James Dyson
"In the end, everything is seen to be perfect "
Pablo Neruda
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation"
Saint Augustine
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