The trouble with perfectionists,” he mused, “is that they…

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I…

— David Talbot

“Scientists define perfectionism as the will to achieve high standards combined with excessive self-criticism. Perfectionists expect, well, perfection. Anything less won’t do. In their…

— Andrea Petersen

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

— Andrew Solomon

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

— David D. Burns

A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

— Eric Mabius

I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an…

— Misty Copeland

“More importantly, however, the formalized apprenticeship system led to higher and higher aesthetic and quality standards. The desire to make things better and better…

— Boyé Lafayette de Mente

“Tilly was downcast; as with all perfectionists, it was the detail others might not notice that destroyed for her the pleasure of achievement.”

— Elspeth Huxley

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

— Joyce Meyer

“Django really is the “framework for perfectionists with deadlines”.”

— Nigel George

“hoarders tend to be perfectionists, that each item they collect is one crucial part of an ideal world they are ever creating for themselves.”

— Kimberly Rae Miller

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

— Adam Jones

Stop trying to make things perfect, The real doesn't reward perfectionists, It rewards people who get things done!

— Damian

“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you…

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Heywood Hale Broun