Quotes About Perfectionism

The red velvet material was hard to work with, it pulled, and the style my mother had chosen was not easy either. She was not really a good sewer. She liked to make things; that is different. Whenever she could she tried to skip basting and pressing and she took no pride in the fine points of tailoring, the finishing of buttonholes and the overcasting of seams as, for instance, my aunt and my grandmother did.

A man who couldn't tolerate small failings in himself was staggered by a big one.

I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply.

I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

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 difficulties people have with me are purely musical things, never personality things. But, you know that's just the way it goes. I like to get things right!

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.

My parents never really pushed me, but I was so hard on myself. I would say I had some perfectionist quality, to a fault.

I'm not somebody who can tell if the song is good enough to be pushed until I hear what it sounds like after all the bells and whistles are put on it.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I'll be really tough on myself. Someone will be like, 'Oh that's really cool' and I'll be like, 'Yeah, but there's this one flaw.'

I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

Why do we get so angry at ourselves when we eat foods we love? Do you think guys walk around going, 'I just ate a cheeseburger and I'm so mad at myself?'

I'm a massive control freak.