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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and i...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awarenes...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and pe...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or nove...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, ove...

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Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down t...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If ...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

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Denis DiderotThoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works

We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever ...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go o...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is u...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that con...

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Guillermo del ToroCabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wis...

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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ...

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The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people’s respect for me ...

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Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermos...

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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared fro...

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...

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Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome ...and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and mak...

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There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.