On The Road To Perfection

Perfection is a road, not a destination. - Burk Hudson

. Try to tell that to someone with OCD!

The Perfect Speech

Be sincere, be brief, be seated. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gifts

To give anything less than the best is to sacrifice the gift. - Steve Prefontaine


And the gift is to yourself.

Excellence and Virtue

Excellence is an art won by training and habitation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle


Expect excellence and virtue every time.

Capable of a Lot!

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas A. Edison


Never accept less than possible from you and yours.

Perfection Limitations

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and go out and explore it; don't limit it. - John Eliot, PhD

  I thought about limiting this post to just the first sentence but then it occurred to me that it would go against the Piled higher and Deeper connection.

Flawed

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. - Marcus Valerius Martialis

  Admit to a flaw when needed and the world will realize you are just like them.

Bad Memory

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson

  I can't remember if I have a bad memory but I've never done anything wrong!

Simple

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - Unknown 

The task, no matter how trivial, deserves your full attention.

The Perfect Job

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. - Malcolm Forbes 

In employment, as in other activities, there is no perfection.

Question

Can perfection be enhanced? If perfection is enhanced was the original version flawed? - Lyle

Missed Perfection

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi


But be elated you have caught excellence and not disappointed you have missed perfection.

Happy New Year

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

Why would you be doing it wrong in the first place?

Expecting Perfection

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. - Michelle Burford


I cannot expect perfection from you but you most certainly must expect perfection from yourself. Never accept mediocrity as a goal.

Explore Your Potential

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it. - John Eliot, Ph.D.


You have potential. It is up to you to explore it, not for someone else to discover.

Almost Perfect

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. - Benny Hill


There are those who would complain in light of perfection. They do so in order to try to appear better than perfect.

Perfect Excellence

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. - Dr. David M. Burns


Remember there is a big difference between excellence and perfection.

Neurotic or Psychotic?

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. - Thomas Szasz


I think I would rather be psychotic.


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Practical Limitation

I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. - Milton Glaser 


Practically speaking, if you think you have reached perfection you have merely arrived at your limitation.


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Perfect New Day

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne 

I like the concept that each new day comes to us perfect and it is up to each of us to keep it that way.

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