Quotes About Perfectionism

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

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

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

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.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

If you're prone to social perfectionism, your self-esteem will be dangerously dependent on keeping the roles and responsibilities you believe you have. You'll tend to agree with statements such as "Success means I must work harder to please others." It's not what you expect of yourself. "It's what you think other people expect

We've found this relationship between social perfectionism and suicidality in all populations where we've done the work, including among the disadvantaged and the affluent." What's not yet known is why. "Our hypothesis is that social perfectionists are much more sensitive to signals of failure in the environment.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

No matter how much he accomplished he would always raise his standards slightly higher, and then he'd feel miserable.

You too may be paying heavily for your perfectionism.

You refuse to give in to the perfectionistic habit, and you allow yourself to become flooded with fear and discomfort.