[mind]

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

“You’ll achieve more by being consistently reliable, than by being occasionally extraordinary.” — Grandfather

If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar

“To make art, you have to have just as much doubt as you do confidence.”

“The past is neutral. It only matters when the ego turns it into a story to explain your present.”

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

— William G.T. Shedd