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Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
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Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
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Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
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When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection…
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Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
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That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that…
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Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be…
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You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.
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It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself…
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After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz…
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Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even…
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Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that…
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Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the…
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A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.
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We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never…
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Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on…
— David Heinemeier Hansson
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We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or…
— Donald Fagen
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
— Jack Kirby
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The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
— David Morrissey
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Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even…
— David D. Burns
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I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt…
— Misty Copeland
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Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
— Joyce Meyer
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