great thread! Someone on the Board has a quote that basically says striving for perfection is stifling of creativity, but striving for excellent allows you to be creative---wish I could find that quote again.
Little humor along these lines--I'm mentoring some beginner quilters in a local High School FACS class (formerly known as Home Ec) and one is, to use her terms "OCD" about being perfect and has unsewn many things that I've encouraged her won't be noticed. Last week while working on her machine quilting she announced "quilting sure has made be much less OCD"! We all just laughed.