Quotes About Perfectionism

If he had wanted to work himself silly just to make sure each little job was done right, then he better develop himself emotionally to a point where he didn't care who got the publicity.

Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

Sou uma perfeccionista desde os 3 anos. Durante muito tempo, tive a necessidade de mostrar que eu merecia estar aqui – de provar o meu valor. Trabalhei duro. Tirei muitas notas máximas. Venci debates escolares, ganhei bolsas de estudo. Mas precisei chegar aos 30 e poucos anos para saber que o simples fato de ter nascido já me tornava digna de estar aqui. Eu não precisava provar nada a ninguém.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you when the teachers think you're one of the smart, responsible ones, that glow that shines brighter every time you raise your hand in class to say the perfect thing, or you run out of room in a blue book during an exam and have to ask for a second one.

he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.

Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song.

Sometimes it's nice to be in the hands of a control freak.

More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology.

The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as "insanely great" as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it—but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule.

silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!' " As always, Jobs was compulsive in preparing for the dramatic unveiling. Having

Lasseter, August 1997: His cherubic face and demeanor masked an artistic perfectionism

Well, it's a start," Jobs said, "but basically, it stinks. The background color is too dark, some lines

You can paralyze yourself with perfectionistic do-your-best nonsense.

Modern liberalism's perfectionist ambitions - reflected in its progenitor (and current euphemism), progressivism - seeks to harness the power of government, the mystique of science and the rule of experts to shape both society and citizen and bring them both, willing or not, to a higher state of being.

I am a very particular person about having all I write printed as I write it. I require to see a proof, a revise, a re-revise, and a double re-revise, or fourth-proof rectified impression of all my productions, especially verse. A misprint kills a sensitive author. An intentional change of his text murders him. No wonder so many poets die young!

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.

Virgos cannot tolerate lying, cheating, fakeness, or ignorance.

Virgo: "You missed a spot."

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would. I

So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.