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“I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.”

Thinking Imagination Perfection Someday Perfectionist Maybe Someday

Author:Douglas Booth

“I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.”

Thinking My Own Worst Band Critics Perfectionist

Author:Adam Jones

“I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.”

Want Needs Perfectionist

Author:Spencer Krug

“I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.”

Long Self Process Creative Doubt Shots Creative Process Perfectionist Self-doubt Long Shots

Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman

“I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.”

Thinking Want Stills Bits Space Perfectionist

Author:Gustav Ejstes

“Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.”

People Should Water Accepting Clear Produce Capacity Fishes Soil Enlightened Taoism Solitary Crops Perfectionist Manure Impurity

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.”

Ifs Needs Trying Believe Wells Mean Hard I Believe Willing I Believe In Believe In Me Try Again Perfectionist I Believe In Me

Author:Serena Williams

“It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.”

Trying Different Whole Deals One Thing Perfectionist Ensemble

Author:George Saunders

“I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.”

People Thinking Sometimes Young Growing Up Growing Imagine Personality Industry Objectives Annoying Entertaining Perfectionist

Author:Keke Palmer

“I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.”

Persons I Can Shining Nervous Perfectionist Moody

Author:Emily Giffin

“Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!”

Perfect Knowing Materials Tomorrow Eternal Discovery Perfection Debate Yesterday Perfectionist Homage Proceeding

Author:Oliver $

“My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?”

Ifs Kind School High School Very Good Grades Perfectionist

Author:Mara Wilson

“My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Kind School High School Very Good Favors Grades Perfectionist Nyu

Author:Mara Wilson

“I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.”

Perfectionist

Author:Wayne White

“Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.”

Evil Perfectionist Evil Things

Author:Martha Stewart

“The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!”

Thinking Knows Form Harder Illness Curse Perfectionist

Author:Truman Capote

“I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.”

Wells Bigs Pain My Own Ass My Time Perfectionist

Author:George Michael

“I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.”

Way Want Certain Tendencies Insecure Perfectionist

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.”

Ifs Knows Way Heart Perfect Approach Perfectionist

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.”

Believe Bits Achieve Perfection Perfectionist

Author:Aamir Khan

“In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It's something that's not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you're always pushing people and you're pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.”

People Thinking Hollywood Rap Being The Best Pushing Perfectionist Push Yourself

Author:Vin Diesel

“Michael Jackson was a constant perfectionist. He loved watching other people do what they did best and then taking that and adding his own little twist to it. He loved to pull the best from the best and make it his own.”

People Perfectionist

Author:Siedah Garrett

“You always have your complaints about your own music. I never finish a track because I decided to finish. It's like, I just finish a track because I'm tired of it, you know? So you could be finishing songs forever, I think, if you are quite a perfectionist.”

Thinking Song Forever Tired Track Perfectionist

Author:John Talabot

“Valentino Garavani is never really shown himself as anything other than this gracious diplomat of the dolce vita. That's his preferred look. But he's a temperamental genius - a man of cyclone force, passion, and perfectionist impulses who has very little tolerance for things that aren't exactly as he wants them to be.”

Men Passion Genius Tolerance Impulse Gracious Perfectionist

Author:Matt Tyrnauer

“I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.”

Thinking Sometimes Moments Mistake Helpful Looking Back Made A Mistake Perfectionist

Author:Tom Odell

“I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that feels full and complete. At the same time, I also really love history. So the combination of big worlds and history draws me directly into fantasy. Well, it should turn me towards historical fiction but I'm such a perfectionist about research that I'm not sure I could ever write a book in that genre properly. In fantasy, you have to have the same level of precision, but it's not as research-based. Plus, I get to write my little info sheets and draw my maps.”

World Writing Kind Book Fantasy Historical Not Sure Historical Fiction Perfectionist Portal

Author:Victoria Aveyard

“If you have problems, it's something to apologize for, to be embarrassed about, not to revel in. It's the perfectionist in me...That's why people call me the "bossy little thing"-I'm the bossiest person around.”

People Problem Call Me Little Things Apologizing Embarrassed Perfectionist Bossy

Author:Angelina Jolie

“In my work I try to get things right, to do it well, and if there are specific skills involved - like in a case conducting or playing the piano, or in this film I have coming up where I play a character who is German - I'm very meticulous about learning accents and dialects and those kinds of things. That's probably the closest I come to being a perfectionist.”

Trying Kind Character Film Perfectionist

Author:J.K. Simmons

“A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.”

Doe Crafts Perfectionist

Author:Patti LaBelle

“I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.”

“I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.”

Ifs Sometimes Perfection Okay Excellence Flaws Here And There Perfectionist

Author:Tyra Banks

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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“And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.”

Deals Okay Perfectionist

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.”

Ifs Shows Bigs Personality Perfectionist

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.”

Firsts Demand Perfection Perfectionist

Author:Joyce Meyer

“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Wells Inspiring Risk Perfection Faults Motivational Sports Laziness Perfectionism Perfectionist Taking Risks Risk It Risk-taking Great Risk Risks And Taking Chances Risking Your Heart

Author:John Henry Newman

“Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.”

Knows I Can Sometimes Done Today Sides Walks Bed Office Organized Perfectionist

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”

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Author:Joseph Addison

“I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.”

People Thinking I Can Reason Care Successful Mad Perfectionist

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.”

Inspirational Made Important Wanted Perfection Excellence Perfectionist Inspirational Celebrity

Author:Dennis Quaid

“I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.”

Thinking Men World Two Self America Hate Driven Chef Jackets Incompetence Perfectionist Stoves Family Man Thoroughbreds

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.”

Men Needs Needed These Days Perfectionist

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.”

Hard Done Home Stuff Cooking Entertaining Perfectionist

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”

Thinking Art Artist Names Difficult Details Be Good Architecture Obsession Artistic Obsessive Perfectionist

Author:Barbra Streisand

“I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.”

Ifs I Can Helping Failing Perfection Excellence Upset Perfectionist

Author:Justin Timberlake

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”

Hands Time Goal Degrees Perfection Excellence Perfectionist Perfection And Imperfection Self Perfection

Author:Voltaire

“I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.”

Perfection Excellence Perfectionist

Author:Emma Watson

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

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Author:Mae West

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”

Art Perfection Realising Perfectionist

Author:Oscar Wilde

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