Quotes About Perfectionism

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

You always think you can do better. No question about that. In a way, you want to try and do every aspect better.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

If you want something done right, just forget it.

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provide it. The child fails and becomes the scapegoat for family problems. Once again, the child is saddled with the blame.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.

'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

I used to blame myself for a lot of things, and I apologise loads. I don't do it any more, but when I was in the studio - and it was my song - I'd say 'sorry' every time I got a note wrong.

So many times, when I would do a lot of retakes, I used to say sorry to my director and co-actors.

I'm not a fan of the sound quality of our first album, because there's a noise in my head.

I probably sound like a broken record every time I do a race, but I always look for the bad. That's just kind of how I work.

Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'