That little editor on my shoulder kept nagging me. So to prove that I was good enough, I rechecked my work to death. But writing, like all crafts, takes practice. Don't measure your work against everyone else. Only your own work should be used as a yardstick to measure your growth.
Perfectionism can be a killer too, and it can never be achieved.
There is no perfect way to write the article or book you are working on. In the big picture, it doesn't matter if you lead out your piece with a quote instead at statement. As long as your work is clear and has heart, then people will enjoy reading it. In an effort to bring in a perfect grand slam with my writing, I had lost the person behind the words. The editor in my mind had stifled my creativity so much that my own thoughts could not emerge.