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Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Anatole France Jacques Anatole Fran?ois Thibault, The Garden of Epicurus, 1894
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Angelique Arnauld
Perfection does not exist in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird
I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Nothing that is complete breathes.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
Aung San Sun Kyi
At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfect, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path, if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments.
Author Unknown
No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.
Author Unknown
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
Author Unknown
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
Author Unknown
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
Author Unknown
When the world says, Give up,Hope whispers, Try it one more time.
Author Unknown
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
Author Unknown
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
Author Unknown
The race is not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running.
Author Unknown
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
Author Unknown
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
 
 
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