Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

“Keep going even when the going is slow and uncertain. Make your dream your prayer and your service. Don’t wait for recognition. Let it…

— G.G. Renee Hill

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

We all know that the desire for perfection can get in the way of authenticity and enjoyment; it's the same with games. There's a…

— Naomi Alderman

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration…

— Marya Mannes

I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost…

— Les Wexner

Everything contains its antithesis.

— Juliet Stevenson

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my…

— Daniel Handler

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very…

— Louis Althusser

“All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an old friend.…

— Kamand Kojouri

... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that…

— Nick Gravenites

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters:…

— Ron Fournier

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr