Perfectionist Quotes

Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off. (Augusten Burroughs)
I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. View quote
Serena Williams
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know? View quote
Irvine Welsh
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing. View quote
James Cameron (director)
I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right. View quote
Garry Shandling
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians. View quote
Dave Brubeck
I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way. View quote
Brad Dourif
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft. (Patti LaBelle)
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist. View quote
Adam Jones
It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied. View quote
Cherie Lunghi
When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist. View quote
Coco Lee
Im a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times. View quote
Cassie Ventura
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people. View quote
Dick Dale
I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days. View quote
Jacqueline Bisset
I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going. View quote
Mary Pierce
I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection. View quote
Sam Claflin
I'm a perfectionist about being on time. View quote
Tammin Sursok
There never was a greater perfectionist, there never was, and never will be, a better dancer, and I never knew anybody more kind, more considerate, or more completely a gentleman...I love Fred, John, and I admire and respect him. I guess it's because he's so many things I'd like to be and I'm not. (Fred Astaire)
He is a truly complex fellow, not unlike the Michelangelos and da Vincis of the Renaissance period. He's a supreme artist but he is constantly filled with doubts and self-anger about his work--and that is what makes him so good. He is a perfectionist who is never sure he is attaining perfection. View quote
Fred Astaire
Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose. View quote
Chris Evert
I am not a perfectionist at all. I love failure. I love mistakes. I love the bizarre. I love characters. I love missing teeth. I love beauty because your eyes are off-center. And how can you notice that in the buzz of the city? So I like the emptiness. View quote
Josh Homme
I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress. View quote
Lucille Ball