As a perfectionist, you think of perfection as a state. As you clean your kitchen or your car or your desk, you fantasize about preserving the state of perfection that you have accomplished.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
The challenge is to embrace the inevitable, unstoppable stream of life and to flow with it rather than try to swim against it.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
To admit our part in emotional and educational and political violence, through our modeling of hatred and righteousness or through our passivity, we would have to begin to turn the notion of perfectionism on its head.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living
Ask yourself: What am I hungering for? What am I chasing: perfection, approval, certainty, validation?
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
To function as a society, and to function in a society, we have to play this game of comparisons. This game is useful but fundamentally absurd. After all, how do you compare apples to oranges?
Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
I am willing to bet any Yankees fan worth a pint of pinstripe blood would want Andy Pettitte on the mound in a do or die start situation with the current rotation.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
I no longer expect myself to be perfect. Instead, I borrow the verb form of that word. I definitely expect myself to be perfecting at all times.
Michael Sigman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
Amazon screwed up last month when it sold Kindle users an unlicensed version of a book. The online behemoth then compounded its goof.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
Some people say the automobile dates back to Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's self-propelled three-wheeler in 1769. Last night, Obama said we invented the thin...
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living