#striving

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Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.


Brené Brown


#anxiety #depression #healthy-striving #life #life-paralysis

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.


Mikhail Bakunin


#always #believed #cautiously #done #forward

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.


Dale Earnhardt


#every #making #race #striving #us

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.


Armstrong Williams


#give #great #human #model #perfection

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.


George Eliot


#called #enough #failure #good #grander

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.


Eric Bogosian


#because #complex #deal #get #i

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.


W. E. B. Du Bois


#american #asunder #being #body #dark

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.


Marc Chagall


#also #artist #awake #continual #dignity

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.


Christopher Cross


#aspire #bar #better #easier #gets

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.


Steffi Graf


#been #best #could #going #guided