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People are never going to be perfect, and neither am I. But that doesn’t stop me from trying.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being better.

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

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I’m a perfectionist.