Nicole Scherzinger Quotes

People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that's what drives me.

I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.

I try to be a perfectionist.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

I'm constantly looking for perfection.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

I'm a perfectionist and I always want to do the best as possible.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want more and better for myself.

I don't like the word 'perfectionist,' because it's self-flattering. It's tooting your own horn and implies that you actually can achieve perfection. I prefer 'particularist.'

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.

As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

I had this creativity always with this will for perfection, and I always said to myself, 'Look for what's best.' 'That's your goal, your driving principle.'

For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.

I've always had that personality that nothing was never good enough.