70 Quotes About Perfectionist

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

By far, the hardest part regarding a work of art, apart from the start, is knowing precisely when to stop...It's growing up, finding that most glowing and top spot, ascending to where its highest peak is reached...before descending for the deepest, darkest drop.

Perfection is born of imperfection.

Perfection is inexistent. It is the short-lived joy of muddling in the dips of a superficial life in a bid to bury who we really are.

Parents don't really know how to help. Some aren't prepared for this new version of their high-achieving kid: doubting, sad, tired, confused- emotions they may have rarely dealt with in high school. And isn't college supposed to be even better than high school? When your child is more mature, self-sufficient, and otherwise flourishing just as she always has been, except now at an even higher level?

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

People often miss out on their own human genius because they’re trying to be more perfect than the gods.

...and Khalad is too engrossed in his work at the moment to hear us, much less be of use in conversation." "To be a perfectionist is not the same as being deaf," Khalad said without looking up, and the bone witch laughed.