Every Fall, I rerun my popular 4-part series on perfectionism and how to overcome its potentially crippling effects on creativity. Here’s the first installment:
I currently have a half-written blog post about perfectionism and its destructive effect on creativity. For some reason, every time I get back to it, I’m interrupted…hmmm…there’s that stressful life making things difficult again…
Until I can finish up what I have to say about the evils of perfectionism, I’m going to share a few words of wisdom on the topic from other creative people:
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
~Donald KennedyPerfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough – that we should try again.
~Julia CameronThe thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
~Anna QuindlenThe maxim ‘Nothing but perfection’ may be spelled ‘Paralysis’.
~Winston ChurchillHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
~Salvador DaliAn artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
~Eugene DelacroixPerfectionism is the enemy of creation…
~John Updike
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Strangling My Muse 
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