Top 30 Quotes About Perfectionists
#1. Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#2. Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#3. Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists - we're so easy to keep quiet. If
Brene Brown
#4. People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Paul Simon
#5. Perfectionists are their own devils.
Jack Kirby
#6. The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#7. We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.
Suzy Welch
#8. I like difficult people because that means they're perfectionists and they're passionate.
Stephanie Sigman
#9. Overwhelmed? Delegate. For perfectionists of the world, this is often a challenge. While you may think only you can do it best, you are denying someone else an opportunity to learn when you do everything yourself. Being the bottleneck serves no one, including you.
Lisa A. Mininni
#10. Tilly was downcast; as with all perfectionists, it was the detail others might not notice that destroyed for her the pleasure of achievement.
Elspeth Huxley
#11. And it's a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake.
Donna Tartt
#12. Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.
Rahul Karn
#13. We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
Donald Fagen
#14. I reckon there's always a bit of pressure. We put it on ourselves, I think we always feel a bit of pressure because people around us and our manager and stuff call us perfectionists, which I find very hard to take because nothing that we do is perfect.
Chris Cheney
#15. A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.
Eric Mabius
#16. I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
David Morrissey
#17. Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
Heywood Hale Broun
#18. The faster you act, the more stable your company becomes and the higher your chances of success. Perfectionists make lousy entrepreneurs.
Sean Wise
#19. Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
Joyce Meyer
#20. Perfectionists are patient,
the diligent are persevering,
and the relentless are successful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.
David Galenson
#22. Perfectionists often position themselves on the sidelines, from which they point out that nothing is good enough.
Rebecca Solnit
#23. 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.
Zicheng Hong
#24. hoarders tend to be perfectionists, that each item they collect is one crucial part of an ideal world they are ever creating for themselves.
Kimberly Rae Miller
#25. Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.
David D. Burns
#26. Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals
Asa Don Brown
#27. I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.
Misty Copeland
#28. Were all of us who were furcated across the Web misintegrals of one sort or another? From religious delusionals to obsessed perfectionists?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#29. My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured ... understand that we have to work together on the big issues.
Newt Gingrich
#30. With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
Adam Jones
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