perfectionism quotes

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

In art the best is good enough.

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.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he’s been making his whole life, and he’s still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

I rewrote the ending to ‚Farewell to Arms,‘ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I’m chasing perfection.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.