Success Quote by Fernando Pessoa

I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning.…

— Fernando Pessoa

“After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day. Allow yourself to grow in…

— Uma Nnenna

“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The desire for perfection prevents you from working more by arousing fear and shame within you.”

— Vishal Ostwal

“He aims at too great perfection. He wants to know everything and do everything, and life is too short for that. He finishes nothing,…

— Amy Steedman

“All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the…

— Kathleen Rooney

“If you focus on every detail, try to make everything perfect, and become cautious about all the steps you take – you’ll end up…

— Vishal Ostwal

Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy…

— St. Vincent

“I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer…

— Charles Dickens

“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.”

— Amit Kalantri

“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and…

— Kate Forsyth

“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you…

— David Foster Wallace