Quotes About Perfectionism

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

I believe that to be the world's greatest living writer there must be something terribly wrong with you. I don't even want to be the world's greatest dead writer. just being dead would be fair enough.

Their eagerness to learn was replaced by a bizarre and erroneous notion that education is somehow a competition, not a process whereby a person becomes more capable and complete. There is even a term for the elite high school students most consumed by this phenomenon: "crispies"—because they have burned out. On

fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

I'm constantly anxious about making mistakes.

I just don't like making mistakes.

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.

There's a line between revision and fretting, just working it to death." —Toni Morrison

Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in the ditch, hiding her poor stitches in the seams between the blocks.

The person who is a defeated perfectionist generally has a conscience that's way too big. So big, in fact, that it magnifies shortcomings and failures and won't let its owner forget sins or imaginary sins of years ago, even though they have long since been repented of or paid for.

One more thing to remember as you battle failure: you are almost certainly battling guilt as well. Just ask yourself, Do I feel guilty much of the time? For most perfectionists, the answer is almost always yes. I have counseled many people whom I sometimes call "the guilt gatherers of life.