Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you'r...
Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and di...
(n.) The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
Perfection is a lie, and lying to others is explicable but lying to oneself is the highest form of deceit.
When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.
There is no greater suffering than constantly measuring yourself and coming up short, except perhaps the realization that your suffering is hurting others. But where do we learn these things? Because,...
Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.
Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...
At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.
Perfection is inexistent. It is the short-lived joy of muddling in the dips of a superficial life in a bid to bury who we really are.
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Progress is much more better than perfect.
Productivity is about looking forward. Looking back too much, or trying to be too much of a perfectionist, can destroy that productivity. So keep going. Keep creating. Keep building.
Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.
Worst thing about being a perfectionist.. Everything you do might look amazing in someone else eyes but in your heart never truly satisfied.
If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you w...
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long...
Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think per...
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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