Quotes About Perfectionism

I want every dish to be a ten.

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

At times, I felt bad because while giving a shot, I would just forget facing the camera, or knowing the right angle.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

I have a fear of failure, letting someone down, contradicting myself.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

Listen, Im not technically the best singer in the world.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

Many people come to self-help material because they feel like something is wrong with them or the way they are. The problem is that anything that tells you how to improve your life is also implying that there is something inherently wrong with you the way you are.

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I've never thought of myself as having that much of a temper. But it's true that I can't stand it when things are not done properly. When that happens, I cannot control my reaction.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

As engineer Sanjeev Singh explained, if you keep waiting for people to tell you what to do, don't ask for help when you get stuck, and won't show others your work until it is perfect, "you won't last long at Facebook.

The High Chair Tyrant who attacks his human host is the perfectionist; he expects the impossible of himself and berates himself (just as his mother did) when he can't meet the demands of the infant within. The Tyrant pressures a man for more and better performance and is never satisfied with what he produces. The unfortunate man becomes the slave (as the mother was) of the grandiose two-year-old inside of him.

Ah, critics! How unforgiving they are toward anything that isn't, in some special way, known only to them, absolutely first-rate. Do they ever guess, I wonder, how much energy and guts and sheer talent it takes to be second-rate?

Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please.

Todas las mujeres y todos los hombres heroicos del mundo han sido perfeccionistas. Eran verdaderos optimizadores, enormemente obsesionados porque todo lo que hacían fuera destacable.

All he could hear was a small voice inside his head that was saying you were wrong. Completely wrong. It was a voice he had heard before, but that didn't make it any easier to hear again, because he had built his whole career on hearing it fewer times than the next guy. It was like a box score in his mind, and his average had just taken some serious damage. Which upset him. Not because of vanity. It upset him because he was a professional who was supposed to get things right.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.