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