Aldous Harding Quotes

I do tend to overdo everything.

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

It is very important not to try too hard because in the past I think I have done that.

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

Some girls just don't know when to put the brush down, when to stop.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.