Perfectionist Quotes - Page 6

• 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 don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

  Ne-Yo

  Perfection, Imperfection, Want

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.

  Rajneesh

  Perfect, Enjoy Life, Neurotic

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• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Trying, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

  Martha Stewart

  "Oprah's Cut with Martha Stewart". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. August 15, 2000.

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• I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

  Chris Tucker

  Perfect, Scripts, Sides

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• Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Moving, Mean, Details

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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'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.

  Al Franken

  Making Changes, Ifs

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• Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Character, Quality

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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• I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.

  Tom Ford

  Jobs, Home, Goal

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• The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

  Austin Kleon

  Editing, Ideas, Uptight

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.58, Workman Publishing

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• If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Self, Obsessed

  Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.

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• I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

  Vin Diesel

  Critical

  "Vin Diesel Kicks Ass". Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. June 23, 2001.

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• When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.

  Adam Young

  Writing, Opportunity, Ice Cream

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• I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire use. I need to see the thing, in some form, and then work with it over and over and over until it makes sense to me - until its concerns approach me, until its themes come to my attention. At that editing stage, the story picks itself and it's just up to me to see it, to find it. If I've done a good job, what it all means will force me to confront it in further edits.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

  Dia Frampton

  Song, Perfect, Way

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• Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!

  Oliver $

  Knowing, Discovery, Yesterday

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• My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

  Mara Wilson

  School, Kind, Grades

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Expectations, Textbooks

  "Rachel Zoe: Size 0 to 8" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2008.

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• A perfectionist has to take his time.

  Michael Jackson

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.144, Random House

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• I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Home, Cooking, Done

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• I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

  Tom Odell

  Mistake, Thinking, Helpful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that feels full and complete. At the same time, I also really love history. So the combination of big worlds and history draws me directly into fantasy. Well, it should turn me towards historical fiction but I'm such a perfectionist about research that I'm not sure I could ever write a book in that genre properly. In fantasy, you have to have the same level of precision, but it's not as research-based. Plus, I get to write my little info sheets and draw my maps.

  Victoria Aveyard

  Book, Writing, Historical

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• If you have problems, it's something to apologize for, to be embarrassed about, not to revel in. It's the perfectionist in me...That's why people call me the "bossy little thing"-I'm the bossiest person around.

  Angelina Jolie

  People, Apologizing, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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