Quotes About Perfectionism

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.

If you're a perfectionist about your writing, [your rough draft] is the time to get over it. . . . Decide ahead of time that your rough draft is going to be pretty awful, and join the ranks of the great writers of the world. . . . Save the niceties for the revision stage.

I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

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.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.