“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: All Hail and Hallelujah
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“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”
Source: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.
Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God. If you strain yourself too much you'll have to ask God to patch you up. And for all you know, patching you up may take time that it was planned to use some other way.
BUT... overstrain yourself now and then. For this reason: The things you create easily and joyously will not continue to come easily and joyously unless you yourself are getting bigger all the time. And when you overstrain yourself you are assisting in the creation of a new self — if you get what we mean.
“Good people with a good process will outperform good people with no process every time.”
Source: Object Solutions: Managing the Object-Oriented Project. (1996), p. 188 as cited in: Stefan Bergström, Lotta Råberg (2004) Adopting the Rational Unified Process: success with the RUP. p. 92
