Chris Rea Quotes

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

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

With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

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.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

I do have impossibly high standards.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

I'm super OCD, so everything is clean.

I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.