David Foster Wallace
Writer
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything."
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Perfectionism
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Perfectionism spells paralysis."
Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur, Investor
"Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author, Memoirist
"Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived."
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"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) ."
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"I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism."
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"It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear."
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