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		tjr on April 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish... A thought I have found inspiring is attributed to 19th-century Catholic minister John Henry Newman: "Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."

vessenes on April 23, 2012 [–]

I believe GK Chesterton cadged this into something like "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."

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