Perfectionist Quotes

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

  Michael Jackson

  Who I Am, Perfection, Excellence

  "Godfather Director Gets Good Rap". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.foxnews.com. February 10, 1993.

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• I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, Perfection, Excellence

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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• I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Thinking, Names

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• I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

  Tupac Shakur

  Romantic, Greatness, Rapper

  Song: The Eternal Lament

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Perfection, Excellence, Quality

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspiration, Perfect, Excellence

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• Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Mars, Strive

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.436

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• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

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• I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Believe, Thinking, Perfection

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• Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Okay, Deals

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• Perfectionists are their own devils.

  Jack Kirby

  Devil

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• I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Men, Needs, These Days

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• The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

  Billie Jean King

  Attitude, Numbers, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Jun 05, 2010

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• I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

  Brad Dourif

  Decision, Way, Type

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• I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

  Dennis Quaid

  Inspirational, Perfection, Excellence

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• The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  People, Perfect, Quiet

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• I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

  Justin Timberlake

  Perfection, Upset, Excellence

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• I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

  Emma Watson

  Perfection, Excellence

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• Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

  Chris Evert

  Perfection, Should, Feels

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• I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational Sports, Perfection, Tennis

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• I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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