Perfectionist Quotes - Page 7

• Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

  Irvine Welsh

  Men, Too Much, Bothered

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.88, Random House

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• Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

  Augusten Burroughs

  Home, Creativity, Light

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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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• 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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• Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  Camille Paglia

  Depression, Smart, Careers

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• I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.

  Martha Stewart

  Book, Passion, Creating

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

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• A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.

  Helmut Krone

  Unnecessary, Drawers, Backsides

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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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• A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

  Eric Mabius

  Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, to the point of insanity.

  Tom Ford

  Insanity

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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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• Im a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.

  Cassie Ventura

  People, Mind, Want

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• I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

  Charlie Trotter

  Excellence, Kind, Deviation

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• Perfectionist? Thats not something I am.

  Mac DeMarco

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• Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

  Stan Brakhage

  Mean, Honor, Quality

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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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• 'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

  Peter Biskind

  Studios

  Peter Biskind (2010). “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.

  Jennifer Garner

  Thinking

  "The Motion/Captured Interview: Jennifer Garner on-set for ‘The Invention Of Lying’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 27, 2009.

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• I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

  Solange Knowles

  Letting Go, Perfect, Best Of The Best

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

  Jon Voight

  Years, Want, Littles

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• Women are called difficult and tough when (1) we negotiate the best deal, (2) we are perfectionists in doing our job, (3) we are willing to work harder and longer than men are willing to, and (4) when we question anything - anything - that someone else is doing, particularly if that someone is a man.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Jobs, Hard Work, Men

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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