Perfectionism Quotes
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Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
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Perfectionism is the death of a great room.
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Fuck you perfectionism. Without you, I am brilliant.
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False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
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Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
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Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.
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I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.
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[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.
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Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
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When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
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Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
