Quotes About Perfectionism

Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).

Time boxing is an excellent tool for stopping perfectionism in its tracks. It forces us to complete a task to a good standard and no more.

I know how it feels when you want to illustrate an idea but you just don't know how to start. And when you finally grabbed the confidence to mark that paper but then it turned out really terrible that you don't want to show it to anyone.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Daria weighed five pounds, four ounces, and was in perfect health. But she was by far the smallest baby in the observation room. And every other baby in there had a full head of hair. The fact that she had no hair drove me crazy. I don't know why. That first night I was so upset that I cried all night long. I was thinking, I did a bad job. I didn't eat properly, I skated too long, and that's why Daria has no hair. I was such a sad, funny little mom, and very far from home.

Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn't been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.

Cómo hago para explicarle a esta mujer, pensé, que soy esclava de las letras y los números desde los seis años, que mi humor depende del éxito de sus combinaciones, que esta alegría de haberlo hecho bien es rara, inestable, que dura una hora, una tarde, una noche?

Ich würde immer Angst haben: Angst davor, einen falschen Satz zu sagen, einen übertriebenen Ton anzuschlagen, unpassend gekleidet zu sein, kleinliche Gefühle zu offenbaren, keine interessanten Gedanken zu haben.

I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.

No artist is ever happy with all the work they produce, so why should their critics be? Let artists be revered for their best works of art—even if it happens but once in a lifetime—and forget about the rest. All too often art is a wondrous accident, and it is folly to seek genius in its maker.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Ich bin ein fleißiger Mosaikarbeiter, kein Dichter.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.

When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and over again.

Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'

There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.