Perfection Is The Enemy Quotes

#1. Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection is the enemy of done. Good enough is really effin' good. Nicholas

Brene Brown

#2. Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.

Lisa Braithwaite

#3. Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

Janelle Monae

#4. Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Sheryl Sandberg

#5. Perfection is the enemy of creativity

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#6. I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.

Patterson Hood

#7. Whenever perfection becomes the goal, it becomes the enemy of progress.

Amy Pendergrass

#8. We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#9. Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

John Updike

#10. Perfection is often the enemy of greatness

Janelle Monae

#11. A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an enemy of the reality that following Jesus is a journey, not an arrival.

Steve Stockman

#12. The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

Richard Rohr

#13. PERFECTION, OF COURSE, is a cruel god. It requires the kind of absolute devotion and daily sacrifice that is the sworn enemy of personal emotion and intimacy with others, even - and maybe especially - one's loyal ladywife.

James Dodson

#14. 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.

Erica Jong

#15. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun." Perfectionism

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by the civilized man.

Joseph Conrad

#19. Perfect is the enemy of done.

Catherine Carrigan