Quotes About Perfectionism

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

There were moments growing up where I felt beautiful, but I truly didn't feel beautiful all of the time until I became a mom. It really allowed me to realize no one is perfect.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good. Had

Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.