I've been a role model in terms of discipline, and I have always been rigorous and professional.
My job is intense. It's very physical.
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse.
I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.
At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.
It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.
Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.
Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
As I grew up, Dad was more involved in training than promoting. He brought the same style to his training that he did to being a father - strong and strict.
I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.
In Tom Cone's work nothing is easy.
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.
I'm a perfectionist. I want everything done right. When it's not done right, I'm not happy.
Lucy is such a perfectionist.
I am a frighteningly thorough person.
There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.
Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
I'm a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.
Indian coaches are strict on the field, but off the field, they take very good care of you.
