Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!
I'm chasing perfection.
I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.
I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.
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.
Each day in practice, I try go perfect. I try to be perfect every turn, every stroke. That's the way I feel comfortable.
The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.
We strivin' for perfection.
If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!
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.
I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.
I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the lyrics, the melody and everything.
I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
