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Office of Counseling and Testing - Stress & Anxiety (1112 words) |
 | Perfectionists often equate failure to achieve their goals with a lack of personal worth or value. |
 | Perfectionists frequently believe that they are worthless if their accomplishments are not perfect. |
 | Perfectionists tend to perceive others as achieving success with a minimum of effort, few errors, emotional stress, and maximum self-confidence. |
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PES Yearbook: 1999: Karl Hostetler (4371 words) |
 | A perfectionist can say the person has a duty to do more than what is satisfactory without also claiming that the person's duty is done only when the person has achieved a life that is better than all possible others. |
 | Perfectionists can agree that principles of justice should not favor their particular conceptions of the good, conceptions that may be erroneous. |
 | Perfectionists need not deny that, but the suspicion might persist that in its pursuit of lives that are best, perfectionism will favor those who are willing and able to achieve certain higher excellences. |