Mac DeMarco Quotes

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

I'm such a perfectionist. I want to do better and better.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

I try to be a perfectionist.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I'm such a perfectionist and I like to have everything just right, but at the same time I try to be as real and as genuine as I can be in my life and in my career.

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

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 don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.

For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.