You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it.
Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day.
Tags: life happiness love basketball sports perfection hard-work tennis fighter cricket adrenaline yolo
Kikamilikacho si kiimarishwacho.
Enock MaregesiTags: perfection improvement
Leonard is far and away my least favorite relative, and I have no clue why I call him one night, collect, very late, and give him an involved and scrupulously fair edition of the whole story. We end up arguing. Leonard maintains that I am just like our mother and suffer from an unhappy and basically silly desire to be perfect; I sat that this has nothing constructive to do with anything I've said, and furthermore I fail to see what's so bad about wishing to be perfect, since being perfect would be...well, perfect. Leonard invites me to think about how boring it would be to be perfect. I defer to Leonard's extensive and hard-earned knowledge about being boring, but do point out that since being boring is an imperfection, it would by definition be impossible for a perfect person to be boring. Leonard says I've always enjoyed playing games with words in order to dodge the real meanings of things; this segues with suspicious neatness into my intuitions about the impending death of lexical utterance, and I'm afraid I indulge myself for several minutes before I realize that one of us has severed the connection. I curse Leonard's pipe, and his wife with a face like the rind of a ham.
David Foster WallaceTags: language perfection relatives david-foster-wallace
Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best
Tags: perfection rarity aristocracy
Do it again.
Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it again.
Because again is practice, and practice is improvement, and improvement only leads to perfection.
Tags: practice try perfection improvement again richelle never-give-up do-it richelle-goodrich attempt
I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.
J. MerridewTags: perfection boredom normalcy normality
I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
Mary E. PearsonTags: failure perfection
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.
Richard CarlsonTags: acceptance perfection
If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.
Francis A. SchaefferTags: perfection
Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.
Dan PearceTags: self-esteem self-awareness perfection self-realization pressure society-beauty
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