Quotes about Perfectionism

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

The problem comes when you postpone decisions in the hope that a perfect answer will come to you later. It won't. You're as likely to make a great call today as you are tomorrow.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I went for years not finishing anything because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

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

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.