Quotes About Perfectionism

This is what makes them good engineers. Perfectionism: incinerating perfectionism.

I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

I think I'm slightly OCD. I'll be desperate to get a part, but as soon as I do, the sense of pride wears off almost immediately, and fear of not doing a good job sets in. I'll think, 'This is a dream come true,' and then, 'It's not OK until I get a good review.'

Web projects aren't done until I'm happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more.

There are so many moving parts to a wedding, and I, it turns out, am a bit of a perfectionist.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Of course I wish for all positive reviews and all positive things, but that's not reality and no one's perfect.

I barely ever reread the chapter before posting, because I overthink things, and I feel like overediting or trying to use too many words can ruin the story.

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

I'm very pernickety about cast and make-up. Continuity things can go dreadfully wrong in film; the beards are different, red waistcoats become blue.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

I feel a bit scared at times as I feel if I am not convinced about the scene, the audiences won't be either, so I have to give my best.

Engineers aren't professional grammarticians, but they love correcting people. Even more, they love making you feel stupid.

I feel like I always touch my hair all the time so I'm always correcting it.

I think that with any act of creation, you can't ever be satisfied. There's always more that you feel you should have done.

Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.