Quotes About Perfectionism

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

He was one of those susceptible, highly-strung persons who cannot bear to have made a blunder which, though they do not admit it to themselves, is enough to spoil their whole day.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

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Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: You're just not good enough.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

I hate being wrong, especially on things I've researched, I need to remember I can't oversimplify arguments due to slow typing skills.

You cannot always assess yourself right. Sometimes the brightest, most talented, most accomplished among us feels like a failure! Confirm if you're not the one who feels that way.

Today I don't feel beautiful and confident. I am not brave and strong. I see only flaws; most of the time I can get past them, but sometimes, they're all I see.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

I was petrified of making a mistake—head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.

the typical trader wants to be right on every single trade. He is desperately

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Something I know about seemingly confident people, and especially people who work in large companies, is that often they're more afraid of making a mistake than they are of wanting to do something right.

Something I know about seemingly confident people, and especially people who work in large companies, is that often they're more afraid of making a mistake than they are of wanting to do something right. (That's especially true for managers or CEOs in their mid-forties, and even truer if they're men.) That's because they're afraid of being pounced on if things go badly and afraid of the hit their self-esteem will take if they screw up.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.