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Some people just can't stand to be second best...or third or fourth. They always have to be 'the best', the first! And then they damn 2nd, 3rd and 4th place to hell and end up last... where they should have been all along!

Often times, to win, is to fail and to lose yourself. Sometimes it is better to lose gracefully but acknowledge in your own mind that you were true to your art. You failed not because you lost but because of the way you handled losing.

shit, I make no sense. *rolls eyes and walks away*

At least some other people do....make sense that is...

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." Gustave Flaubert

"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull." W. Somerset Maugham

Some people need to calm their inflamed egos.

Note to self and others...Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing - Harriet Braiker