Being A Perfectionist Quotes

#1. America is the longest argument in the world.

Bill Moyers

#2. I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

Solange Knowles

#3. She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three years before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.

Rebecca Makkai

#4. If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Dan Harmon

#5. I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!

Ryan Newman

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

Jennifer Lopez

#7. I'd lost a good deal of my sensibilities, most of my faith in mankind, and all of my underwear somewhere between a graveyard and a church parking lot.

Liliana Hart

#8. The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

Billie Jean King

#9. The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Helen Rowland

#10. It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Cherie Lunghi

#11. I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

Tammin Sursok

#12. 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.

Jacqueline Bisset

#13. One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

Anthony S. Fauci

#14. You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

Archie Panjabi

#15. I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.

Martha Stewart

#16. But what's so great about being a perfectionist? ... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Lionel Shriver

#17. Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Martin Parr

#18. I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).

Manil Suri

#19. People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that's what drives me.

Paula Garces

#20. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

Bruce Weinstein