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  • 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.

    Voice   Musician   Chance  
  • I reckon there's always a bit of pressure. We put it on ourselves, I think we always feel a bit of pressure because people around us and our manager and stuff call us perfectionists, which I find very hard to take because nothing that we do is perfect.

  • It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

    1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.
  • I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

  • I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.

    Running   Dad   Son  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.

    Real   People   Done  
  • I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

    Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869) See Swift 1
  • I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

    "Oprah's Cut with Martha Stewart". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. August 15, 2000.
  • Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

    Source: www.usmagazine.com
  • I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

    Song   Perfect   Way  
  • Perfectionist? Thats not something I am.

  • If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2809, e-artnow
  • If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.

    Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.
  • It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

  • Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.436
  • I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.

    "The Motion/Captured Interview: Jennifer Garner on-set for ‘The Invention Of Lying’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 27, 2009.
  • The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.

  • In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It's something that's not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you're always pushing people and you're pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.

    Rap   Thinking   People  
    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

  • One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

  • Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

    Golf   Games   Attention  
  • My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured...understand that we have to work together on the big issues.

    "A TARP Counterfactual" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. December 8, 2009.
  • It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  • People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  • I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.

    Soccer   Important   Age  
  • And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

  • I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

    Littles   Way   Freak  
  • I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

    "15 Minutes with Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos". Interview with Jessica Calefati, www.motherjones.com. April 26, 2010.
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