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Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination . — Dan Miller
Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained. — Gary Zukav
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. — David Foster Wallace
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand.… — Robert Hillyer
Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from… — BrenÃ© Brown
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. — Anne Lamott
Perfectionism spells paralysis. — Winston Churchill
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to… — Anne Lamott
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver! — BrenÃ© Brown
However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started. — Marilu Henner
[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them. — William Westney
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by… — Sarah Lewis
It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear. — Elizabeth Gilbert
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's… — Laini Taylor
Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than… — David D. Burns
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance. — BrenÃ© Brown
There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of… — Veronica Roth
Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this… — Mira Kirshenbaum
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) . — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else… — Susan Polis Schutz
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from… — John Berger
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection. — Vladimir Horowitz
Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that… — Joan D. Chittister

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