Grayson Allen Quotes

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

I think all my videos suck.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

I'm never happy with my performance.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

I hate getting things wrong and I hate failing.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.