Quotes About Perfectionism

It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.

All actors are self-critical.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

My only problem is that I'm too sensitive about my movies. I feel each of them has to work and consider every film as my last one.

We will redo a shoe 15 times before we get it right, to get it where it should be and hopefully it will fit and look the way it should.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

I think I'm absolutely perfect. Because if I'm not good at something I completely banish it from my mind. Completely. Like it never happened.

It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you decide to keep it because you realize that it's gonna be real tough to beat!

That's why I've never made a live album - I can't bear listening to myself!

After Gary had given the enlargements their sour baths, he raised the lights and discovered that both prints were webbed over with peculiar yellow blotches. He cursed a little, not so much because he cared about the prints as because he wanted to preserve his good spirits, his serotonin-rich mood, and to do this he needed... cooperation from the world of objects.

So yes, he could be funny. If you thought such things were funny. And the coffee had to be made with a specific number of beans. He could taste any errors in arithmetic.

I know very little of my own work by heart, because I don't like what I write. In fact, I find myself personally expressed far better in the writings of other poets than in my own, because I know all my mistakes—I know all the chinks and all the padding, I know that a particular line is weak, and so on. I read other poets in a different way; I don't look too closely at them.

En una ocasión le pregunté a Alfonso Reyes por qué publicamos, y Reyes me contestó: «Publicamos para no tener que pasarnos la vida corrigiendo borradores».

Pastry chefs are very particular people - we like a controlled environment; we don't like an audience.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

As the days progressed, I felt as if YNK' was my first film. That is because the director was hellbent on perfectionism. He was insistent about getting the best out of me.

There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.