Perfectionist Quotes - Page 9

• I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

  Howard Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Perfect

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• I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.

  Mary Pierce

  Different, Sometimes, Easy

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• I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Information

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• I love to talk to children about making mistakes. Its important that I tell them about how I dont get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Children, Mistake, Important

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• I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

  Tammin Sursok

  "'Spectacular!' Week Day 3: Exclusive Tammin Sursok Interview!". Interview with Tamar Anitai, www.mtv.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?

  Eric Stoltz

  Home, Talking, Trying

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• Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

  David D. Burns

  Stars, Air, May

  "14 Signs Your Perfectionism Has Gotten Out Of Control" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

  Sam Claflin

  Thinking, Perfection, Strive

  "Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair: An Interview With The ‘Catching Fire’ Heartthrob". Interview with Dana Matthews, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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• If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Jobs, Real

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• The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their own way without participating with other people outside of their communities, were all piecemeal reforms. That's what makes a utopian a utopian, this idea that they were going to create a whole new world from scratch.

  Christine Jennings

  Ideas, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.

  Jim Nantz

  Dad, Book, Writing

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• Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Voice, Musician, Chance

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• I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

  Monique Lhuillier

  Life, Kids, Home

  "The designer making Rihanna, Scarlett and Gwyneth look good". Interview with Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

  Weegee

  Photographer, Be Good

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• I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing; it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Done, Wells, Feels

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• I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

  Anne Lamott

  Stars, Energy, Noses

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• Let the perfectionist play postal.

  Yasser Seirawan

  Play, Playing Chess, Chess

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• People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

  Paul Simon

  Alaska, People, Perfection

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