Quote by Harriet Braiker
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker

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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. – William Faulkner

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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Angelique Arnauld

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