Azzedine Alaia Quotes

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

I rarely like the music I make. It's like nothing's good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

Nothing is more certain than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.

With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

I'm the kind who is never happy. No matter what it is, I always find room for improvement.

I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

Good is not good, where better is expected

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.