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• ~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

  Courteney Cox

  Daughter, Parenting, Age

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Golf, Games, Attention

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• When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

  Coco Lee

  Thinking, Perfection, Excellence

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• We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

  Donald Fagen

  Thinking, Design, Trying

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• Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

  David D. Burns

  Success, Men, Perfection

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• Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist

  Genevieve Nnaji

  Spiritual, Character, Soul

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• People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Best Effort

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• i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself.  i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way.  i'm very disciplined.  like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?".  until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts.

  Jim Carrey

  Light, Nuts, Balls

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• I think this..."perfectionist gene" that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for "good enough." You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that. They're just trying to figure out what's the opening and how they can seize it. They're not thinking about, Oh my gosh, I'm not perfect, my hair's not perfect today, I wore the wrong shoes. No.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Thinking, Hair

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• I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

  Lucille Ball

  Attitude, Hard Work, Makeup

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (pp. 9-10), 1996.

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• I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Self, Driven, Critical

  "At War With Her Body / Author Marya Hornbacher chronicles unending struggle with eating disorders". Interview with Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. January 29, 1998.

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• I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

  Julian Casablancas

  Mean, Bits

  "Julian Casablancas: 'Does my mind just go blank? Yeah, all the time" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2009.

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• One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Humble, Anxiety, Feelings

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• I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but you have to know you're going to make mistakes. It's how you respond to those mistakes that counts.

  Sue Bird

  Mistake, Knows, Bits

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• Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.

  Heather Small

  Relaxed, Hard

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• I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Quality, Actors, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Thinking, Next, Very Good

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.

  Michael Shannon

  Real, Focus, Variation

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

  David Morrissey

  Real, Heart, Creative

  "David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  Rachel Zoe

  Littles, Way, Freak

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• I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.

  Tom Ford

  Insanity

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• I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

  Judith Hill

  Get Better, Rooms, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Procrastination

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• Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Frustration, Skills

  David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Musician, Jazz, Classical Music

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