“Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened” LoveLittlesMomentsEyeCareRunningDiesCareersLaughingRiskCryFailurePerfectionOver YouSweatAvid Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.” IfsMenShouldMeanIdeasYoungHumanityGoalCareersOffersDignityPerfectionConvincedProfessionExcellentYoung ManGreat MenScholarSageScopeImaginativeConsonants Author:Karl Marx
“People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.” PeopleJobsSuccessPoorCareersBuddhismPerfectionEmpoweringExtensionsGood Job Author:Frederick Lenz
“Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.” TryingSuccessTurnsWinningAttentionCareersFieldsBuddhismApproachPerfectionOrganizationPlaying FieldsBusiness Organization Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.” ThinkingShouldPersonsDifferentProblemMotherStarsPerfectCareersWifeSeeingPerfectionMovie StarPerfect Wife Author:Debora Spar
“Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.” ShouldImportantRealityCareersPerfectionReality Of LifeSetback Author:Anna Wintour
“From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'” CultureIndividualSexPerfectInterestingCareersExpressionPerfectionSizeDefinedMatesVacationQuestsDesirableParamountHandbagsPerfect FamilyIndividual Expression Author:Naomi Wolf
“To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” KnowsWellsJoyEnjoyWorkCareersKnow HowLearningTeachingPerfectionExcellenceGreat WorkOne WordBest WorkHuman ResourcesMotivational WorkDoing What You LoveJoy Of LivingWork To Be DoneInspirational CareerMotivational CareerLove Your WorkInspired To WorkWork You LoveQuality WorkWork LoveWork PlaceJoy To The WorldMotivation And DriveLoving What You DoStriving For PerfectionStriving For ExcellenceLove Your JobPursuit Of ExcellenceEnjoy Your WorkJoy In Work Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” KnowsInspirationalWellsMotivationalSuccessJoyEnjoyWorkSecretCareersKnow HowPerfectionExcellencePositivityUpliftingGreat WorkOne WordBest WorkHuman ResourcesMotivational WorkDoing What You LoveWork To Be DoneInspirational CareerMotivational CareerLove Your WorkInspired To WorkWork You LoveQuality WorkWork LoveWork PlaceJoy To The WorldMotivation And DriveLoving What You DoStriving For PerfectionStriving For ExcellenceLove Your JobPursuit Of ExcellenceEnjoy Your WorkJoy In Work Author:Pearl S. Buck