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Perfectionism  Quotes
Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

—Asa Don Brown

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People cannot relate to a perfectionist, there is beauty in brokenness. Your story will bring healing to others.

—Buky Ojelabi

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Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

—Jenni Schaefer

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Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

—Criss Jami

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Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

—Paul Arden

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Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.

—Alexandra Stoddard

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You have to be everything.

—Courtney Martin

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There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

—Anne Wilson Shaef

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-what’s really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it’s a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to...

—Judith Warner

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HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to...

—Ellen Hopkins

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

—Walt Whitman

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Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

—Auliq Ice

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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 find you working. Romanticize authenticity instead of perfection.

—G.G. Renee

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Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

—Shannon L. Alder

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There isn’t anything you can’t make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

—Alex Scarrow

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We seem to feel as though the life our children have — that we have built for them — is just a delicate house of cards, held together by the most intricate balancing of all...

—Judith Warner

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You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in…it’s actually kind of...

—David Foster Wallace

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Moms are not perfect—we are being perfected.

—Sue Detweiler

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Often, our relationships become an unrealized quest for what is perfect, unfettered, and free of flaws. We expect our partners, spouses, and our friends to avoid missteps and to be magical mind readers. These secret...

—Ann Brasco

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Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

—J.D. Brewer

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Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety,...

—Brené Brown

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It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will...

—Lon Milo

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Suppose I were to give you a key ring […] with a hundred keys, and I were to tell you that one of these keys will unlock it, this door we’re imagining opening in onto...

—David Foster Wallace

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Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs’ home:...

—Walter Isaacson

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As a young wife and mother living in a pre-Pinterest world, I used to glue-gun bows and small pieces of minutia together methodically. I was an insomniac proudly penning thank you notes longer than the...

—Ann Brasco

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In the end, perfection is just a concept – an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

—Guillermo del

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perfect.” I wasn’t sure what bothered me more; the fact that I had no control over the changes of my body and hair or that this horrible situation was only happening to me.

—Tracey Berkowitz

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It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

—Brené Brown

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Perfection isn’t necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

—Nike Thaddeus

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…some people become hypercritical when stressed.Then again, he hadn’t been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he’d instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about nitpicky. Perhaps this would be...

—Cherise Sinclair

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

—William Faulkner

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You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

—Abiola Abrams

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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 world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of...

—Jane Austen

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Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

—Brené Brown

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No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

—Moffat Machingura

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If you keep trying to do it all at once in a big blast way, you’ll end up not doing it at all

—Constance Chuks

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Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look. The parameters of acceptability as far as physical appearance go are so limiting that only a handful of women actually...

—Yancy Lael

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Perfektion ist erreicht, wenn man nichts mehr wegnehmen kann.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Sometimes it’s hard to know when you’ve crossed the line from conscientious to compulsive. When you’re in the thick of an assignment, it’s easy to believe that you must spend so much time brainstorming, researching,...

—Michael Law

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Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect – for our families and our friends, for each other – when the funny thing was, we didn’t have to....

—Brenna Yovanoff

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If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.

—Jennifer Ritchie

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The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It’s the ultimate self-delusion.

—Gina Greenlee

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If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It’s a good thing to learn more...

—Richard Louv

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Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved.

—Amit Kalantri

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Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn’t the real problem, though it took him a long...

—Lionel Shriver

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We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

—Bernie Glassman

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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

—Tara Brach

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Perhaps we’ll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

—George Leonard

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