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 BrownTag: judgment shame perfectionism blame
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 ArdenTag: inspirational perfectionism true-to-life public-speaking
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.
Anne LamottTag: perfectionism
Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.
Neal ShustermanTag: simile fish metaphor perfect perfectionism suspicion suspicious
Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.
Tag: life self self-awareness souls perfectionism
Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.
Rasheed OgunlaruTag: fear past future procrastination worry waiting haste regret timing perfectionism wasting-time decision-making living-in-the-moment delay inspiring-quotes perfectionist procrastinating rasheed-ogunlaru putting-things-off the-here-and-now
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 time to figure out what was. She needed resistance, the very quality that metal most demonstrably offered up. Suddenly Glynis had no difficulty to overcome, no hard artisan's life with galleries filching half the too-small price of a mokume brooch that had taken three weeks to forge. No, her husband made a good living, and if she slept late and dawdled the afternoon away reading Lustre, American Craft Magazine and Lapidary Journal, the phone bill would still get paid. For that matter, she needed need itself. She could overcome her anguish about embarking on an object that, once completed, might not meet her exacting standards only if she had no choice. In this sense, his helping had hurt her. By providing the financial cushion that should have facilitated making all the metal whathaveyou she liked, he had ruined her life. Wrapped in a slackening bow, ease was a poisonous present.
Lionel ShriverTag: artists need perfectionism
90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.
Jon AcuffTag: perfectionism
On Tolkien: "His fussiness threatened to overwhelm his creativity.
Tag: spontaneity perfectionism
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 never begin to work.
Lon Milo DuQuetteTag: practice procrastination perfectionism magick gnosis
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