Quotes About Perfectionism

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

On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!

I think all my videos suck.

I'm just picky about certain things in the videos, so I'm always switching out things that look or sound better.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good,

She realized the murderous urges suggested that she, in fact, did not have this, but hey, no one was perfect.

Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

Im sick of not being good enough.

Self-sabotage is an art only the most neurotic can master.

I didn't feel that I had any good qualities. Or rather, none were good enough. Nothing I did or said was good enough, but I couldn't make anyone understand the way I felt.

I have always tried to be all the tings my mother wanted me to be; ever the lady, always polite, never inconsiderate. I run my business the way my mother ran our house - everything just so. In some ways I am my mother - full of life when I'm happy, very cold when I'm angry. People say I look just like her. I'll tell you a secret: every time I pass a mirror, I gasp. I wonder if there's more here than meets the eye." - Karen, thirty-nine.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100 0, you will sound flawless.

Avevo incominciato a firmare i quadri, ma ho smesso subito, mi sembrava troppo cretino.

It's not funny, Joan. My bras are all in the first row, color-coded alphabetically from left to right, and then a row of panties, all folded in little squares, and then slips. And socks along the back row. Everything's so neat it makes me want to throw up.

Better is the enemy of good.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.