Perfectionism
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."
By : Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859
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"Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on."
By : Ed Howe
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"No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers"
By : Unknown
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
By : James Baldwin
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"Nothing that is complete breathes."
By : Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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"Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence."
By : Rosalynn Carter
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"One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
By : Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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"Only in grammar can you be more than perfect."
By : William Safire
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"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
By : Max Beerbohm
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
By : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in."
By : Leonard Cohen
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"Sometimes... when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing."
By : Ally McBeal
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"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
By : Harriet Braiker
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"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."
By : William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605
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"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
By : Tom Robbins
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