Tap-dancing gave me permission to stop striving and just be stupid.
When is it at last safe to stop striving and relax into what we have?
This doesn't mean we stop striving for objectivity, balance (admittedly, two rather contested aims) or plurality.
She and Howard Stevenson, a professor of business administration at Harvard, interviewed hundreds of people who had achieved professional success but still could not stop striving for more.
The dilemma his doctors face – when to stop "striving officiously" as the Hippocratic oath has it, and switch focus from curing to caring – is all too familiar to palliative care specialists.
It's stuff like, "I don't like people who make comments on the internet"; "I hope one day we stop striving for perfection"; "I hope people like my new direction".
We'll never stop striving to improve service and prevent the need for complaints, and we believe this approach will deliver real change in customer satisfaction for the long-term".
While clearly proud of his latest product, Mr. Zuckerberg gave notice that he did not intend to rest on his laurels: "At Facebook, we will never stop striving to replace real experience with something soulless and empty".
"When you stop striving for perfection, you might as well be dead," Christian tells a model whom he has almost reduced to tears by marking up her face and body with a lipstick to show how he would improve her already good looks.
"They worry far too much about what might go wrong as opposed to getting it right," he said, adding that this approach contradicts what officials heard last winter when general managers' meetings urged them to stop striving for perfection, but "baseball should get as many calls right as it can".
