Perfectionist Quotes

Quotes tagged as "perfectionist" Showing 61-90 of 114
Vironika Tugaleva
“To be courageous, we must be willing to surrender our perfectionism, if only for a moment. If my self-worth is attached to being flawless, why would I ever try to learn anything new? After all, learning requires mistakes.”
Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset

Michael Bassey Johnson
“An artist obsessed with perfection is bound to dim the light of his art.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“I've always felt the need to prove myself against other people. I mean, I'm quite a weak person physically, and I think in school, I wouldn't say I was bullied but you do feel scared sometimes, or frightened, and the only thing I thought I had that was different from other people was the fact that I was actually quite intelligent. I like reading and passing exams or whatever. But even things like A-Levels - say somebody else got straight As - I would not feel as good as them, because I didn't know what percentages we had. I wanted to know that I had ninety-eight per cent and they had ninety-five per cent. It wasn't enough. I felt next to somebody with the same qualifications as me, I would not feel as good. You don't even know what it means. So you're constantly trying to get better and improve all the time.”
Rob Jovanovic, A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards

Curtis Tyrone Jones
“People often miss out on their own human genius because they’re trying to be more perfect than the gods.”
Curtis Tyrone Jones

Jasleen Kaur Gumber
“Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.”
Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Austin Kleon
“The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us- we start editing ideas before we have them.”
Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people’s respect for me would vanish if what I did was second rate. And while I accept that this “perfectionism” is likely to stimulate the production of better work, it doesn’t, unfortunately, go hand in hand with a relaxed and happy attitude to life.”
John Cleese, So, Anyway...

Donnalynn Civello
“Find the perfection in every moment instead of trying to make every moment perfect.”
Donnalynn Civello

Frank  Sonnenberg
“You’d be perfect if you weren’t a perfectionist.”
Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

Anna Gavalda
“Fuck! How many times do I have to tell you? The butter goes into a butter dish because otherwise it absorbs all the other smells! And the cheese too! Transparent wrap wasn't invented for dogs, shit! And what the hell is this? Lettuce? Why did you leave it in a plastic bag? Plastic ruins everything! I've already told you, Philibert. Where are all those containers I brought home the other day? And what about this lemon? What's it doing in the egg compartment? You cut open a lemon, you wrap it up or put it upside down on a plate, capice?”
Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering

Jasleen Kaur Gumber
“There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.”
Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Stewart Stafford
“Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.”
Stewart Stafford

“There's scientific evidence for the satisfizer over the maximizer. Those who just get it done will generally be happier with the outcome and will be able to be more effective than those who try to maximize every decision and they hold off on it until they have the maximal amount of information. They are less happy with the outcome, whatever decision they do end up making, and that decision is only marginally optimal in most cases, and sometimes is even worse. So get into the habit of being decisive. It is going to make you more effective and happier.”
David Tian Ph.D

Izey Victoria Odiase
“Avoid perfectionism. It often leads to decision-paralysis and excessive procrastination.”
Izey Victoria Odiase, 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development

Abhijit Naskar
“Imperfection facilitates improvement, perfection facilitates stagnation.”
Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

Mehmet Murat ildan
“When you try to say something perfectly, you go away from perfection; when you say something naturally with a flow from inside, you approach perfection!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Sylvia Plath
“I gathered all my news of Joan into a little, bitter heap, though I received it with surface gladness. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Abhijit Naskar
“Only a fool pursues perfection, the wise pursues self-correction.”
Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Beneath every perfectionist's mind, there lives a poor soul dying from anguish and tired of fighting against the atrocious desire for making everything flawless. But, the God of perfection was never born.”
Rafsan Al Musawver

Abhijit Naskar
“There is no place for perfection in a civilized society, for anything that claims perfection, ends up claiming supremacy.”
Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

Abhishek Ratna
“It is common to come across a perfectionist at work. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate; life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer; life is toughest
when you have a perfectionist supervisor!”
Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

Taryn Leigh
“I’ve been the queen of symmetry and everything had to be in identical balance, no matter how you looked at it. But I’ve realized that sometimes things can be a little different, almost vastly different, yet make perfect sense when they are brought together. Sometimes differences are what make things symmetrical.”
Taryn Leigh, Perfect Imperfections

Trevor Carss
“Don't be this dude. Go f*ck something up today.”
Trevor Carss

Kate Fagan
“Parents don't really know how to help. Some aren't prepared for this new version of their high-achieving kid: doubting, sad, tired, confused- emotions they may have rarely dealt with in high school. And isn't college supposed to be even better than high school? When your child is more mature, self-sufficient, and otherwise flourishing just as she always has been, except now at an even higher level?”
Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

Richie Norton
“Proliferation is greater than perfection.”
Richie Norton

Mehmet Murat ildan
“The problem in a perfect valley between the ugly mountains is this: Perfection can be boring and one can climb ugly mountains to feel happy!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

“What did you get, Mr Edwards?'
'Three As.'
'And what were you expecting?'
Mr Edwards looks right into the camera and, completely deadpan, says,
'Three As.'

For Edwards, the perfectionist, this still wasn't good enough. He wanted no, needed - to be the best and a simple grade wasn't enough to confirm this, even to himself.”
Rob Jovanovic, A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards

“When I got my A-Levels, I got straight As, but I thought they weren't as good as other people's straight As,' said Edwards. 'They would look at me as if their As were better. We didn't get percentage marks, so three As weren't enough. I wanted to know I'd got, like, ninety-flve per cent. Three As is meaningless unless you're arrogant enough to think you're as good as them. Which I'm not. I need to see it written down to know.”
Rob Jovanovic, A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards