Perfectionist Quotes - Page 8

• I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

  Jack Nicholson

  Nice, Littles, Good Person

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

  Natalie Portman

  Discipline, Wells, Obedient

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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'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 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'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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• 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'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

  Ariana Grande

  Keys, Want Something, Trying

  "Ariana Grande Covers ‘Seventeen Magazine,’ Talks Drama With Former Cast-Mate", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2013.

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• I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Observant

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• I reckon there's always a bit of pressure. We put it on ourselves, I think we always feel a bit of pressure because people around us and our manager and stuff call us perfectionists, which I find very hard to take because nothing that we do is perfect.

  Chris Cheney

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.

  John Reuben Zappin

  Song, Too Much, Steps

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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 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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• Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.

  Renee Marino

  Thinking, Ideas, Perfect

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Taken, Records

  "Interview: DIIV On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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