Quotes About Perfectionism

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very hard on myself and very critical.

We're perfectionists. We take everything we do so seriously.

I'm a perfectionist. You have to perform at your best.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.

I'm a perfectionist and want things to be done now.

I'm very perfectionist.

I am unfortunately a perfectionist at heart, so it's really hard to allow myself to not be good.

I'm a perfectionist and I've always been interested in growing and I think that has given me the mental fortitude to continue.

I work really hard. I'm a perfectionist.

There was a time where I was such a perfectionist even if I made the kick, but that's no way to live. I can tell you what, that will drive you crazy. I'm very hard on myself, but if the ball goes in a little bit left of the middle, you're not going to hear me crying about it.

I'm my hardest critic, I expect the best of myself, I'm a perfectionist.

In the military, I had to do my hair every morning. I had to put it in a bun and I can do it in two minutes easy. The military also taught me how to be a perfectionist. Everything has to be perfect.

I realized we're all perfectly imperfect, which was a big thing. Perfectionism, to me, was an important thing.

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

I'm very detail-oriented, which is good and bad. Because I will wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something or seeing a mistake, thinking about it, and I immediately send an email - I'm very focused on details.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

I was doing the 'Vogue' fashion awards when I was 16, live on VH1. I was coming down the steps, and I'm a really hard walker. I hadn't had a mistake yet in my career. Everything had been perfect. So I come down the steps on live TV, and I slip. I didn't fall, but you could see the look on my face. I was mortified. I was devastated.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't.

I was a purist bore.