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  • I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.

  • In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

  • People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.

    People   Perfect   Trying  
  • We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

    Perfect   Trying   Needs  
  • Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

    Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.1, Random House
  • I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

  • I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it.

    Love   Crush   Hair  
  • The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

    Future   Ideas   Work Out  
  • Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

    FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 24, 2011
  • Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

    People   Perfect   Trying  
  • Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

    Mom   Perfect   Trying  
    "Arianna Huffington's Best Advice". www.harpersbazaar.com. July 15, 2014.
  • So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  • Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

    Perfect   Trying   Want  
    "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" By Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.
  • Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.

    Fun   Stress   Perfect  
  • Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

    People   Perfect   Trying  
  • I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

    Jobs   Mistake   Kids  
    "Selena Gomez: I Make Mistakes All the Time". Interview with Alla Byrne, people.com. June 16, 2011.
  • I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

    "Bad Feminist". Book by Roxane Gay, August 5, 2014.
  • I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

    Perfect   Trying   Want  
    Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.5, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

    Art   Perfect   Trying  
  • As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

    Mean   Keys   Giving  
    Source: www.esquire.com
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