Robert Wyatt Quotes

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

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

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

I'm never satisfied with anything. It can make things hard for myself, but it also pushes me.

I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

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 never made a film which fully satisfied me.

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.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

I'm never happy with my performance.

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

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

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'

I'm constantly unsatisfied with any situation, which is both good and bad, because never being fully happy drives me to better every day... but I don't enjoy the things that I do even when I do them great.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

If I can't do something and excel at it and do it well, I have a tendency to give up on it really easy.