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PERFECTION: Perfection is the enemy of good. (Unknown Source)
PERFECTION: Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Anne Wilson Schaef, U.S. author, speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Born 1935)
PERFECTION: Perfection is the enemy of good. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
PERFECTION: The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
PERFECTION: A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (John Henry Cardinal Newman, British theologian, poet, and Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)
PERFECTION: To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. (John Henry Cardinal Newman, British theologian, poet, and Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)
PERFECTION: Error is mortal. (Mary Baker Eddy, U.S. writer and religious leader who established the Church of Christ, Scientist, founder of The Christian Science Monitor, a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Women’s National Hall of Fame,)
PERFECTION: Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin, U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, Born 1939)
PERFECTION: Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Anne Wilson Schaef, U.S. author, speaker, and consultant)
PERFECTION: Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. (Robert Hillyer, U.S. poet and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1895-1961)
PERFECTION: The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Eugene Delacroix, French artist who was known as the leader of the French Romantic school, 1798-1963)
PERFECTION: The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. Never trying anything new, he is a brake on the wheels of progress. (M.W. Larmour)
PERFECTION: You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds. (Margaret Mead, U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)