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"perfectionist" Definitions
  1. a person who likes to do things perfectly and is not satisfied with anything less

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"He is a perfectionist, and every company needs a perfectionist," Agustín Almodóvar said.
He is a perfectionist when it comes to cutting hair.
The man behind the myth emerges as an amiable perfectionist.
"I've just always been that way, a perfectionist," she admitted.
He's a perfectionist and wants the music to be amazing.
Well, there's a good chance she might be a perfectionist.
I'm a Cancer, I'm very emotional, very sensitive, a perfectionist.
Each hints at a precious perfectionist beneath the group's braggadocio.
"I'm a perfectionist, and I love to win," Williams said.
Weeding out healthy perfectionist qualities, like proofreading, isn't the goal.
This is a hardcore record made by a total perfectionist.
" I'm the OCD crazy perfectionist person so I'm like. "OK!
He is a perfectionist, while she sees the big picture.
What does it tell you about perfectionist attitudes and behaviors?
They're perfectionist, they're scheduled, they're very much into their phones.
I'm kind of a perfectionist when it comes to that.
" Or "I can never finish anything because I'm a perfectionist.
"She's a perfectionist," he said of the superstar mom of three.
He is a perfectionist and wants the music to be amazing.
"When you're changing careers, you can't be a perfectionist," she said.
Ever the perfectionist, McIlroy said the round was "a lost opportunity".
Because I'm not really a perfectionist, I really value that [input].
I think that Adam is a little bit of a perfectionist.
I'm also a perfectionist, so I think that's the biggest thing.
"I must say, he's a consummate performer and perfectionist," Stewart said.
Virgo is about analysis and is known to be a perfectionist.
Bulimics tend toward impulsivity, while anorexics are more controlling and perfectionist.
I already know that the director Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist.
The singer is, after all, a notorious and self-described perfectionist.
Though Jobs was a perfectionist, he didn't always get things right.
Reagan was a perfectionist and a control freak, as everyone knows.
As the perfectionist of the Zodiac, Virgos were often very upfront.
He was a notoriously stubborn man, a perfectionist indifferent to deadlines.
Would you consider yourself a perfectionist in any of these areas?
This, it seems, is also who he is: thorough, a perfectionist.
He was a workaholic, a perfectionist and, yes, often a bully.
Caruso, 25, is a self-described perfectionist but also a realist.
He is a perfectionist and very passionate about creating the perfect album.
Today's not the day to be too much of a perfectionist, Virgo.
Behind every Perfectionist is a secret, a lie and a needed alibi.
Behind every Perfectionist is a secret, a lie, and a needed alibi.
"I'm a big eyebrow perfectionist," the actress admitted to Into the Gloss.
With performing, I'm a perfectionist: I want to make the crowd roar.
You might be a picky perfectionist, Virgo, but you're certainly not inflexible.
Megyn Kelly is a kissing perfectionist, according to her husband, Douglas Brunt.
His fiercest rivals heaped praise on him as a visionary and perfectionist.
As a designer, minimalist, and perfectionist, I thought it would be heaven.
He is a curmudgeonly perfectionist in a sport where perfection is unattainable.
"He's a genius and a perfectionist," Mr. Waldrop said of Mr. Mackie.
" Said Iguodala: "I'm a perfectionist but not within myself — within the team.
We wouldn't have a show that dazzles if Bob weren't a perfectionist.
"I'm a perfectionist so this is hard for me," Ms. Macdonald said.
Our experience has been that disagreements stem primarily from my perfectionist tendencies.
Others who worked closely with him said he was a demanding perfectionist.
The self-proclaimed perfectionist admits that overseeing the business hasn't been easy.
Pontus is someone very sensitive, a perfectionist who is always questioning himself.
He keeps this thing like for 30 years because he's a perfectionist.
Pop perfectionist, R&B torchbearer, conscious recoupler, black Madonna: yes, yes, yes, etc.
"I'm a perfectionist and I'm working my way away from that," he says.
"Leah is a perfectionist and pays such close attention to detail," says Burke.
As the sign of the analyzer, Virgo, you're known for being a perfectionist.
If there's one word that sums up the N.Y.C.-based pro, it's: perfectionist.
If there were no other cause for suspicion, that perfectionist argument might wash.
On top of not actually being a writer, he was a brutal perfectionist.
He is a perfectionist and will not rest until he is entirely happy.
I'm a perfectionist – I go the extra mile to get everything bang on.
Her mother was known as a perfectionist homemaker who frequently entertained international guests.
In Virgo, Lilith is an obsessive perfectionist who is hypercritical about her hygiene.
Luke Rockhold is a perfectionist ... especially when it comes to sculpting male genitalia.
Anderson, naturally a perfectionist, has had to learn to appreciate his best work.
"She's a perfectionist," Deniese Davis, a producer on the show, said of Matsoukas.
She's a real perfectionist with it all and a real hard worker, too.
Clinton is far more of a perfectionist than Mr. Trump, as is Madonna.
Mr. Zhang is famous for his perfectionist pursuit of a well-designed service.
By any standard, he was a perfectionist who could embrace accident and happenstance.
He called Smeltzer a perfectionist and McCormick a hard worker and a nice guy.
As a guitarist, songwriter and visionary he was a perfectionist and a unique man.
"He is a meticulous perfectionist and it's why people love his movies," he said.
She smiles, even as she's fraying from the effort of keeping up perfectionist standards.
The perfectionist student in me wants to hit every single number every single month.
As finally, sparely constructed by the obsessive, perfectionist Kubrick, the movie went like this.
I wasn't much older than she was, and I too was an extreme perfectionist.
Consider the ways you're being a perfectionist, and if it's hindering your forward motion.
I'm a perfectionist, so I like to make the right decisions all the time.
"Behind her God-given talent was the drive of a total perfectionist," he said.
Mr. Saini calls himself a "perfectionist" and said he takes pride what he does.
He is moody, stubborn, loyal and fiercely private, a control freak and a perfectionist.
I hate being called a perfectionist, and this may be why: It is a lie.
Even when Beth tries to create compromise in Randall's grand "perfectionist" schemes, she gets steamrolled.
Remember the actress, Christy Carlson Romano, that played the show's perfectionist middle child, Ren Stevens?
For Beyoncé, bouncing back from her pregnancy wasn't always easy, especially being the perfectionist type.
For a perfectionist like Chandra, the process of writing was a special kind of torture.
Others says he is simply a perfectionist who demands only what he asks of himself.
She lists Princess Diana as her life's inspiration and calls herself a loyal, kindhearted perfectionist.
She's a real perfectionist, while Jaime is someone who tends to deviate from the script.
Or you might become a perfectionist in an effort to try and prove your worth.
Christian Slater's clearly a perfectionist ... look at him trying to pull off the Mannequin Challenge.
His recent works apply the unique aesthetic to the films of famed perfectionist, Hayao Miyazaki.
They meet at 6:05 AM in analytical, perfectionist Virgo, creating a focused, intelligent vibe.
"You are a hotheaded perfectionist who can be extremely obnoxious," Lloyd Webber quotes him saying.
If you're a bit of a perfectionist or a control freak, this can be difficult.
I'm a perfectionist about the final product, and I'm often assigned to train new employees.
No matter how well a "perfectionist" does, their performance never seems to be good enough.
And Kevin—an infamous perfectionist—is, at last, ready for the masses to hear it.
But with Jahangard being a perfectionist, she has difficulty trusting others with her macaron recipe.
"The answer can't just be, 'I'm really good at communication,' or 'I'm a perfectionist,'" Barker said.
Considering she's a self-proclaimed perfectionist, we don't doubt Williams will make all the right plays.
If you're obsessing over every sentence as you write it, you're not just being a perfectionist.
I've ended up being more of a perfectionist than I was expecting to with this one.
After preschool, those perfectionist tendencies can be reinforced by other facets of life, like school tests.
"I actually love that part now … I used to hate it because I'm such a perfectionist."
MJ thinks it's an eyesore, but the perfectionist inside Kris can't help but move it back.
With each flick of the lights, the perfectionist Joel saw his hard earned connection fading away.
The brothers claimed that their father was a harsh perfectionist who physically and sexually abused them.
Her perfectionist approach to street food has made her a steward of the street foodie movement.
Apple's last decade and a half, mostly under Mr. Jobs, has been defined by perfectionist focus.
Teammates and Dunleavy describe Ochefu as a relentless perfectionist, but perhaps only perfectionists can acknowledge perfection.
I used to be a perfectionist who focused on any little thing that went wrong vs.
" Mr. Lacroix remembered Ms. Bouchra as "more than a perfectionist in technique, cut and final results.
"We must work harder, we must also be more perfectionist," Zhang said, according to the Post.
And me, as you can imagine by this phone call, I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
As a perfectionist, Harrison wanted to be as good at striking as she was at grappling.
Her husband, Jack, jokingly calls her a "perfectionist and dictator" in the office and at home.
He was, he said, a perfectionist constantly seeking to improve his work and a demanding instructor.
Dre is a perfectionist of audio, maybe one of the greatest audio producers that ever existed.
I was a perfectionist, and music and the violin became the sole focus of my life.
I learned a lot from that, because I'm a perfectionist and like to obsess over details.
This perfectionist nature has meant that, up until now, their work has been steady and unhurried.
It's also because the movie was stunningly beautiful in every shot, thanks to perfectionist director Irvin Kershner.
Is perfectionist Virgo Kaitlynn Jenner fated to butt heads with newcomer Brandon Thomas Lee, a charming Gemini?
The value of this flickering blow is in its ability to make a perfectionist out of anyone.
With my record, it took me a while to finish because I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
Or maybe it was just the perfectionist in Hale who thought there was anything wrong at all.
Then he said that the teen was a perfectionist who always had too much on her plate.
As a recovering perfectionist myself, I know how hard it can be to let go of control.
It's the kind of game a perfectionist loves, built to reward mastery and brutally punish anything less.
Though she loved her students, the heavy teaching load was stressful, especially for a self-described perfectionist.
"Answers like 'I'm a perfectionist' or 'I'm a workaholic' are the red flags of phoniness," Welch says.
An over-achieving perfectionist who traveled and worked hard at a pace that led to extreme stress.
"This especially applies to group projects where the end result will reflect on the perfectionist," she writes.
And I know it's the perfectionist in me, but at the same time, I care too much.
"As a guitarist, songwriter and visionary he was a perfectionist and a unique man," the statement said.
Beyoncé can absolutely be described as a perfectionist, though she's more accurately a master of her craft.
My mom is a perfectionist as well, as she projects this onto me with her high expectations.
Mr. Simon, long known as a perfectionist, may have physical reasons to make this his last tour.
"I am really demanding and very much a perfectionist and, most of all, quite independent," Mladenovic said.
Hanyu, who is known as a perfectionist, added that he was far from satisfied with the result.
I had trust issues (Scorpio problems) and also was a perfectionist about everything (my Virgo Moon, lol).
He's a "perfectionist," says Kalambay, who flies in from Switzerland to help Oezdemir prepare for his fights.
An over-achieving perfectionist who travelled and worked hard at a pace that led to extreme stress.
One installation, Untitled (Perfectionist), features a writer's table surrounded by a suffocatingly high mound of crumpled papers.
Many of his boosters compare him to the late Steve Jobs for his creative, perfectionist vision of products.
The perfectionist anxiety to add ingredient upon ingredient in search of making your dish stand out is understandable.
Some splits were over matters of religion, and some over Garrison's peculiar perfectionist ethos and notions of nonresistance.
"I'm such a perfectionist, so it felt very free, but it felt different," Biles said about the dance.
"Jen has always been a hard worker and a perfectionist when it comes to filming," says the source.
Ever the perfectionist, Sakurai also wanted to adjust each fighter in an attempt to speed up the game.
A perfectionist, she controlled every aspect of the Coachella performance, right down to the beading on the costumes.
One of these houses is the home of Amy, a perfectionist, overworked mother (Mila Kunis) surrounded by children.
I'm a perfectionist and I want to be truthful to my beliefs, if you know what I mean.
Her perfectionist tendencies were in evidence on matters great and small during an interview at her Malibu estate.
It helps me when I study because I'm a perfectionist, so coursework can cause a lot of stress.
Don't be a perfectionist or inflexible with your schedule today—you'll need wiggle room as surprises pop up.
Virgo: The Blacklist Dearest Virgo, you are analytical, organized, and the biggest perfectionist that any of us knows.
" But Hill stresses that perfectionism isn't an either/or proposition: "There's really no such thing as a perfectionist.
" She adds, "If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist.
"Perfectionist doesn't overstate it," said Jeff Jordan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a Pinterest board member.
"Joe was a perfectionist in many respects," James W. McBarron II, his supervisor, recalled in a telephone interview.
Since I started the assignment, I've noticed a tremendous change and already see my extreme perfectionist tendencies vanishing.
And I also used to be a perfectionist and I've stopped doing that, so there's hope for you.
"She knows that I'm a perfectionist, and tells me that I have to be patient with myself," says Laurie.
The loops are the perfect situation for a perfectionist, and Alan is trying to perfect something that's pretty irrevocable.
But she's just a knee-jerk reaction to the ladylike princess character, evolved into a controlling, type-A perfectionist.
Anna Camp's bachelorette bash looked so fun, even her perfectionist Pitch Perfect character, Aubrey Posen, would've had a blast.
But I am a perfectionist and I expect something to sweep her off her feet each and every time.
Ever the perfectionist, Murray said he had more work to do before the Australian Open gets underway on Jan.
Maharaj helps perfectionist girls build social skills by shelving work and online chat to hang with real friends instead.
"It was refreshing and freeing to let go of my perfectionist impulses and embrace distortion and mistakes," he says.
Tonight fills you with hope for the future—something that you, as an over-analytical perfectionist, don't usually have.
When I was in elementary school, I remember being described by my teachers and my parents as a perfectionist.
I get she's a perfectionist and strives for perfection but my comment to her was, 'F--- perfection, be effective.
The word "perfectionist" can conjure up the image of a fussy, slightly anxious person who needs to relax more.
She often treats me how she would treat herself, and I'm not a perfectionist so her standards seem impossible.
She took the perfectionist tendencies that had served her so well in golf and channeled them into her marriage.
I'm such a perfectionist and always have the feeling of wanting more that I don't LIV in the moment.
"I'm a crazy perfectionist so I don't know how I'm ever going to feel like it's done," she said.
"Jen has always been a hard worker and a perfectionist when it comes to filming," a source previously told PEOPLE.
He is such a perfectionist that he spent almost $5,000 on an automated sprinkler system to keep his garden humming.
And he hated recording his shows on wax records because the fidelity sounded terrible to the noted aural perfectionist performer.
I'm not in a place where I'm filling things to be the ultimate perfectionist — that's where we cross a line.
There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't — not if you're a perfectionist.
I honestly told him that I am a partial-perfectionist, which I think is what sold him on hiring me.
He's a known perfectionist, and his paintings—and the 18 other books he's published—are the product of endless iteration.
Also, the fact that I consider myself a perfectionist, the shapes I create lend to this type of exact visual.
It allowed me to get off the perfectionist hamster wheel, and let go of irrational expectations, both physical and mental.
Although the perfectionist father's expression is most often frustrated, it's clear that his calf is having a pretty wonderful day.
The results suggested that more than three-quarters of participants humblebragged, usually about being a perfectionist or working too hard.
With time, you might be happy to ditch that perfectionist badge of honor for one that ultimately serves you better.
But, again, the idea is to make sure it's a casual space, and not such a perfectionist hothouse as Instagram.
The perfectionist in me knows that I should be doing certain things, like saving for retirement or creating a will.
The plethora of sous-vide recipes published online are largely aimed at perfectionist cooks who have time on their hands.
The 27-year-old, who is known for being a perfectionist, said she is learning to be kinder to herself.
She had been made to wait until she was nearly 30 years old, but the perfectionist had her perfect ending.
But he was a notorious perfectionist and was never able to put this work in publishable form before he died.
" As for larger-scale issues, Edward is the greatest perfectionist in the world of architecture this side of "The Fountainhead.
" Following that up was another matter, especially for Mr. Granduciel, whom Mr. Ralbovsky called "a real perfectionist, a real sculptor.
That's an actress who is a perfectionist and is totally committed to this role and the woman she is playing.
The question is whether she will sink again under the weight of her perfectionist streak and her high-risk tactics.
To help her recognize when she was falling into her old patterns, Rae gave her inner perfectionist a name — Grace.
She had played an overachieving, extra-curricular participating, performative perfectionist role for too long by the time Daria met her.
"Ironically, nail biters may be more perfectionist and more prone to be dissatisfied with themselves and their performance," O'Connor said.
"I am a perfectionist and and I always seek 100 percent delivery," said Al-Falih during the Tuesday evening press conference.
Although saying, "I'm a bit of a perfectionist" may feel like a badge of honor, true perfectionism will hold you back.
But this distorted version of perfectionist does nothing but isolate you from others and jeopardizes your chances at success and happiness.
I am a perfectionist, and when I don't think my outfit looks exactly the way I want to, I get worried.
But those who saw him close up in Afghanistan provided an intimate portrait of a perfectionist leader unraveling in plain sight.
Not to rip anybody off but to approach the songs and presentation from that same perfectionist, obsessive, larger-than-life mentality.
Even when he wasn't on tour, the perfectionist streak that delivered musical excellence drove him to practically live in the studio.
No one (except your inner perfectionist) expects total consistency from you, Aquarius, but they do assume you'll finish what you started.
" Kardashian explains that she expects "a lot" for her kids and just wants the best for them, admitting she's a "perfectionist.
We don't know why this happened, she was very much of a perfectionist and she wouldn't have wanted to disappoint anyone.
Where before he was a compulsive perfectionist, now he was a working man who always hit the nail on the head.
Her former players described her as a strict, but purposeful taskmaster—a perfectionist, who valued process and execution more than results.
Mercury retrograde is famous for causing delays; however, we all know, that you're famous for over-preparing (you are a perfectionist).
Replace thinking of yourself as a perfectionist with being a progressionist — someone who celebrates their progress every step of the way.
Portaluppi, the Italian Modernist architect of choice to society in the 1920s and '30s, was an obsessive perfectionist, much like Guadagnino.
He's a perfectionist who understands that the achievement of one supreme thing depends on the mastery of a thousand small things.
His customers — who often become friends — say he is a perfectionist and devoted to getting the details of the J2X right.
As a recovering perfectionist, this forced me to not agonize over small things but to keep moving — the clock was on.
But simply doing the skills is not quite enough for the perfectionist, who is disappointed when she makes a rare stumble.
Its opposition almost invariably arises from a perfectionist and utopian source that claims its superior capacity to protect people from themselves.
Mr. Violier, a perfectionist known for his acumen in cooking game, ran the Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville with his wife, Brigitte.
That isn't shocking, though: Telefone took three years to see the light of day precisely because Warner is such a relentless perfectionist.
For a perfectionist like Hitchcock, it was imperative to find a double that matched Leigh's body exactly, and Renfro fit the bill.
Also, she made her most recent Kylie Cosmetics palette go into production six times before she was fully satisfied with it. Perfectionist?
We decorate all the sugar cookies to look like little books which is extremely fun, but difficult for a perfectionist like myself.
A self-described "perfectionist" and "worrier," Wilson reveals she was diagnosed with OCD, depression and generalized anxiety disorder in the 7th grade.
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Interspersed with personal anecdotes and hand-drawn illustrations that recall folksy whiteboard animation videos, Make Time takes a flexible, anti-perfectionist approach.
A perfectionist, Christine had done her research, asking the sheriff's office the best way to successfully shoot yourself (behind the left ear).
I'm a perfectionist sometimes, so I'm trying to focus on just letting things flow naturally until they become what they need to.
The de-facto leader of the show's main clique, Spencer Hastings is a focused and ambitious perfectionist played by actress Troian Bellisario.
First, early in the morning, the Moon clashes with Jupiter in picky, perfectionist Virgo at 1:44 AM, creating a critical mood.
I was not about power, I was about making great movies, I was a perfectionist, and I think I drove myself crazy.
But Tate's perfectionist wife, Julia (Mia Matthews), finds the deer head "horrible," and not just because it throws off her color scheme.
The gesture seemed over the top, a perfectionist coach frustrated that he could not run the score up on a weaker team.
If he hadn't been an easily distracted perfectionist, he would have left behind a larger official oeuvre but a less impressive one.
Never mind yardages and club selection; no course has ever tested García more than his own passionate, perfectionist and occasionally tortured self.
He wants to nail the routine and the steps, he's a perfectionist like me so we understand each other in that sense.
Commonplace even among high-achievers and people with perfectionist tendencies, it's neither enabling nor fun — but you can get rid of it.
I was a perfectionist, which, by the way, for any young listeners, that is a zero-sum game you will never win.
You're a perfectionist, Virgo, so once you do something, it rarely needs to be redone, and oftentimes retrogrades can feel like do-overs.
Virgo and Taurus are a harmonious connection, but not a particularly passionate one — and perfectionist Virgo may get on laid-back Taurus' nerves.
Kubrick was a perfectionist, and he labored over the script as he worked to pull together a production that was unlike anything else.
In other words, Steve Jobs, a known perfectionist who always paid attention to the smallest details, wouldn't have let this slip by him.
I know how much of a passionate and perfectionist person he is (as am I) and I love and trust his artistic taste.
Retrogrades give us a chance to reconsider our choices, but you're a perfectionist, Virgo, so you usually get things right the first time.
Relationship stress pops up this morning; however, if you're willing to compromise and not be such a perfectionist, things could work out will.
Catherine Smer from Wilmington, N.C., however, has let go of the idea of being perfect: No, I am not a perfectionist at all.
But she also was, like many of tennis's most compelling protagonists, a perfectionist in a sport where perfection is unfortunately not an option.
Rezo is a perfectionist who spends most weekends and most evenings working and has taken only one vacation in the last three years.
I'm not a crazy perfectionist, but I don't get to do this in movies or TV. It's like a fantasy for a writer.
" Dustin Hoffman says, "I was dubbed a perfectionist for years and years, and all I could think was, I learned from Mike Nichols.
The erasers are apt symbols for an artist who is a perfectionist reviser, working on single small paintings — adding, subtracting, adding — for years.
But where Shahidi is a politically-minded perfectionist, Zoey is a passionate kid learning about the world for the first time and making mistakes.
As Kanye West gears up for his Yeezy season 5 show, the known perfectionist is sure to give the fashion week event his all.
For these perfectionist types, their logic in a relationship is, If I could get you to be different, I would feel better, she says.
Be a perfectionist — to a point… "Liquid liner can smell your fear," warns Stiles, who admits it's okay if your line isn't exactly parallel.
"Jen has always been a hard worker and a perfectionist when it comes to filming," a source told PEOPLE of the actress in February.
"My beauty philosophy is less is more, because I realize that in the gym for gymnastics, I have to be a perfectionist," Raisman says.
He's working so hard, but he's a perfectionist and he can get frustrated, which makes me frustrated, which means we don't get anything done.
I am in no way a perfectionist but I know that I have the ability to get things done and get them done well.
But while Rihanna is clearly an extremely hard-working woman (just look at all her brands!), she doesn't vibe as a perfectionist on camera.
Although he does not use computers, preferring to make sketches and then experiment with three-dimensional models, he is a perfectionist, Ms. Brodsky said.
It's a sentiment many Gilmore Girls fans generally share when it comes to Liza Weil's fearsome perfectionist — Paris Geller is always top of mind.
But as a perfectionist, type A kid and then adult, I wasn't used to things that I couldn't obtain through hard work and discipline.
"I am, quite honestly, a tad bit of a perfectionist," she whispers this like it's a secret and not the most obvious thing about her.
" Perfectionism:"Perfectionism is something that can be useful in some contexts: There are plenty of people who say that being a perfectionist [helped their career].
I'm a perfectionist by nature, so whenever something wasn't exactly the way I intended for it to be, I had a tough time letting go.
"Soros's speech was already great when I first saw it, but he is a perfectionist and thought that it could be much better," he writes.
Is it because you're such a perfectionist that you never leave a hair out of place — or does that shine of yours just come naturally?
My nose is smaller, slimmer and more feminine – which is exactly what I wanted – but that doesn't stop the perfectionist in me taking over sometimes.
Lily (played by Samantha Ware) is a perfectionist, and although her fitness YouTube series has a dedicated following, she's a bit of a loner IRL.
Mr. Simon has often been called a perfectionist, but Mark Stewart, a guitarist in Mr. Simon's band since 1998, calls that a "two-dimensional" description.
Have you ever fallen prey to any of the logical fallacies it describes — for example, confirmation bias, the perfectionist fallacy, or confusing correlation with causation?
But the play does have a delicious villain in its Morris, played by David Wohl as a tyrannical perfectionist who thrills at his own gravitas.
But if you had asked me this question when I was in my teens or when I was 8 years old, I was a perfectionist.
Williams sees a lot of herself in "perfectionist" Abigail (maybe not so much the arrogant, "queen bee" traits), which initially drew her to the script.
As an innovator and perfectionist who likes his Zen gardens just so, Ellison must also admire the Kiwis' precision and ingenuity on a relative shoestring.
"I feel that people are too demanding of me," and "My family expects me to be perfect," are typical thoughts of a socially-prescribed perfectionist.
Pay attention to how you manage stress on Wednesday as the Moon waxes into her third quarter in perfectionist Virgo at 11:56 p.m. EST.
Belichick is an unpleasant perfectionist whose cultivated public misanthropy and "look at me, a slob" outfits often seem like an irritating sort of performance art.
In competition, Bencic has a perfectionist streak and has already rolled many an eye and swatted many a racket on the world's show courts in frustration.
She holds herself to a very high standard and when she doesn't meet that expectation she comes down on herself very hard because she's a perfectionist.
Hill blamed the factory instead—the irony of Hill's shades having names like "Control Freak" and "Perfectionist" has no doubt spurred some shade of its own.
The more you practice not being a perfectionist about things, the more you will develop the flexibility to use [that tendency] when it suits the situation.
She is too ambitious, too much a perfectionist, too charismatic — too many of the things a person needs to become a star in her own right.
By turns elegiac and colloquial, "Paradise Now" chronicles the ascent and demise of these "fellow travelers" — the Shakers among them — as they chased their perfectionist ideals.
Most surgeons will offer free revision surgery if you aren't 100% happy with the finished result a year on, but is a perfectionist ever truly satisfied?
His approach to music and to fashion were that of a perfectionist, but when he was onstage, there was something so effortless and elemental about him.
"I was lost, with serious problems so beautifully hidden...if anything my social media addiction, perfectionist personality and low self esteem made my career," she writes.
Over the course of the next few sessions, Christine helped me see that my perfectionist tendencies and controlling nature were at the source of my anxiety.
In 1970, the New Yorker profiled Colonel Sanders — or as author William Whitworth describes him, "a perfectionist in an imperfect world" — still alive and approaching eighty.
" This is Swift—the unyielding perfectionist, the professionally heartbroken woman who has built a career by enacting lyrical revenge on her lovers—characterizing herself as "chill.
"[It took five days] mostly because I am a perfectionist who would stare at tiny details for a really long time," she said in a comment.
Recognizing which personality traits are closely tied to thoughts of suicide could make intervention easier; it could also undercut the notion that perfectionist striving is healthy.
"He was phenomenal — personable, a consummate professional, a perfectionist, a great carpenter, and just about the nicest human being you will ever meet," Mr. Dyer said.
But women on top also have family histories — for example, Hillary Clinton's relationship with her gruff perfectionist of a father — that factor mightily into their trajectories.
Though being a perfectionist can be a positive attribute, I for one feel as though it is an exhausting attribute that most often leads to disappointment.
The portrait he creates of his former boss reveals a man of great curiosity, generosity and creativity, but also a frequently imperious and unreasonably demanding perfectionist.
The artist is a perfectionist who burns canvases if he is not completely happy with them, says Alfred Pacquement, the co-curator of the Louvre show.
This flies in the face of what you usually hear: Don't obsess over an issue or be a perfectionist, and don't keep putting off getting started.
I'm an immigrant kid, a perfectionist over-worker, and suddenly I was surrounded by everybody who took everything so seriously but in the most thoughtful way.
I'm both a perfectionist and a procrastinator, which in junior high, led to many late nights hovering (and often crying) over history textbooks, flashcards, and scripts.
Whether it is because the body jab itself hurts, or because the guy getting tapped by it is a perfectionist, the body jab creates movement and opportunities.
Maybe you don't, if you find Boeheim the kind of dour perfectionist who wrings the joy out of college basketball while seeking whatever advantage he can get.
When children are particularly hard on themselves and may have perfectionist tendencies, parents can step in to offer them perspective and help them strike the right balance.
As Carew told it, shortly after teeing off — "Right down the middle," said Carew, a notorious perfectionist — he felt his chest burn and his hands turn clammy.
Take Jamie's family: She said that she's the emotional one, her sister is the perfectionist, her mom is the worrier, and her dad's the laid-back one.
Prince later ordered all footage of the performance removed from YouTube — as a perfectionist, he likely did not want there to be a record of his improvisations.
The Facebook founder's strategy is notably different from Apple's "perfectionist" reputation, an approach that Apple should forgo given that other companies are rushing out products, Wadhwa said.
For a self-identified perfectionist like Karleigh Rose Pettit, a 31-year-old development officer in Philly, checklists and schedules are the glue that holds life together.
A plastic surgeon's office is no place for an anxiety-stricken perfectionist like myself, but there I was about to get a consultation for a breast augmentation.
" You've probably heard that it's no longer considered a wise move to respond to this common interview question by saying, "Well, I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
But if you're a perfectionist, your fear of messing up may lead you to delay action and overthink decisions that could solve key issues for your employer.
So to answer your question: the people who've been doing something that looks really deceptively simple in an obsessively perfectionist way for a long period of time.
Mom's communication peeves with Dad might have colored my opinion, but, to be honest, I think my inner perfectionist just doesn't like to be challenged too much.
Note to students and teachers: This scale is not a clinical measure, but the statements can be a good starting point for discussing and understanding perfectionist tendencies.
"Most of the time it's quite straightforward and easy, but I'm kind of a perfectionist so I try to get it as perfect as possible," he said.
While financial factors certainly contribute to burnout, research shows that a parent&aposs personality traits, such as being a perfectionist, actually account for more of a risk.
He worked his way up the ABC Sports ladder, working closely with Roone Arledge, "a relentless perfectionist" who was the head of ABC Sports at the time.
Ms. Tosi has found a perfectionist partner in Will Guidara, who is growing his own empire, the hospitality group Make It Nice, with the chef Daniel Humm.
So, for someone to be working in our environment, they need to be goal-oriented and perfectionist themselves, because we're not going to chase them around all day.
She's the ultimate perfectionist and what I've learned from working with her is not only how to try to be the best, but how to stay the best.
When you consider the perfectionist culture and insular politics of the sport, it's horrifyingly obvious how a sexual abuse scandal of this scale happened right underneath our noses.
First I think type A personalities (driven, impatient, perfectionist types), are very prone to anxiety and are also extremely hard on themselves when it manifests in their lives.
Thunder cruise past Hornets OKLAHOMA CITY — As much of a perfectionist as forward Kevin Durant is, even he knows not all of his shots are going to fall.
"He was such a driven perfectionist, so when he felt his power ebbing, he wanted to quit at the top of his game, and he did," Thurman said.
BREAKFAST BROWSE 'A driven perfectionist' Philip Roth, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and one of the 20th century's most prolific writers, died in New York at age 85.
"Nitpicking colleagues or being too demanding can harm relationships and sometimes lead to the perfectionist being socially excluded because they're emotionally hard work to deal with," she says.
I chose an odd profession for a perfectionist—I am a journalist, often subject to quick deadlines, criticism from strangers online, and frequently edited by my professional superiors.
As a perfectionist, I hold very high standards and goals for myself, and when I fail to meet those standards, the disappointment that I feel is incredibly overwhelming.
It wasn't really something I ever set out to do, to be honest, but I have just enough of an obsessive, perfectionist streak to be an easy mark.
The movie casts multiple different actors as Laurent, painting a portrait of an over-the-top perfectionist both in his prime and toward the end of his life.
As the Blizzard of '16 approached the city gate, Ricky Jay, the sui-generis conjurer, scholar, storyteller, actor, antiquarian collector, and incorrigible perfectionist, knew what not to do.
The exceptions would be old, rare or fragile wines, which require more thought, and perfectionist personalities, whose obsession with transcendence can interfere with their appreciation of the good.
I'm a perfectionist, and there are only two courses I've ever taken in which I didn't get an A. One was Spanish, and I married a Spanish woman.
"He's one of the first in the locker room, he's the last to leave, he's a perfectionist and he wants to be the best," Roaf says of Mahomes.
"Sometimes it's paralyzing," Katherine Dieckmann, a filmmaker and professor at Columbia University, said of the perfectionist tendencies she sees in her 20-year-old daughter, a college sophomore.
Prince was a perfectionist and it's evident in the handwritten edits he made to "Purple Rain" and lyrics for songs which hit the auction block for a hefty price.
We all know that McGrath is a perfectionist — at her last launch, she revealed that she carried the prototype of MatteTrance in her purse for months before releasing it.
Filmworker is Vitali's story, and besides being a fascinating look into his life, it helps show how Kubrick, infamous for his exacting, perfectionist filmmaking, put together his own work.
He was regarded as a perfectionist who from 1993 to 2000 changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in an apparent protest against his record label at the time.
" As the song continues, Dion admits to being an anxiety addict, broken perfectionist and constant regretter who ran from her heart before choosing to go "back to the start.
"It's still golf, it still drives you crazy, and I still have a bit of a perfectionist in me that I don't like to settle for mediocre," he said.
If I have a role to prepare for, I'm a perfectionist in almost every aspect of life and it's my choice to put a lot of stress on it.
And Klay Thompson, the Warriors' perfectionist, nailing 211 straight long-range shots, whap-whap-whap, and then narrowly missing a single shot and stalking off angrily muttering to himself.
That's because the father, Elliot Isaac, is a world-renowned purveyor of minimalist design, which he sells on the backs of models whose bodies represent a similar perfectionist aesthetic.
If there was ever any doubt, Ne-Yo is a perfectionist ... you gotta see him explain the one hazard of banging while his voice is blaring on a speaker.
For perfectionist cooks with the luxury of time, like my wife and me, an oven that uses well-honed, traditional heating methods like the Wolf is a great fit.
It was the work of a perfectionist, a sharp student of pop music who craved acclaim, an artist desperate to be recognized as an icon in his own time.
A perfectionist whose moral universe had no shades of gray, Russell pursued a law-and-order agenda that appealed to his constituents, who were disproportionately older and overwhelmingly white.
But in the workplace, comparisons to colleagues may be more subjective, and for a perfectionist who is always striving to be the best, this can be difficult, Smith says.
You can call me a perfectionist, or perhaps a masochist, but I typically travel alone, and create my works solely with my own two hands from start to finish.
With a repeat third-round result at last year's U.S. Open, the 20-year-old self-described "perfectionist" Osaka was on a mission to improve on her Grand Slam record.
The original was even blurrier than this latest photo, so there is also the possibility that West, being the perfectionist he is, just didn't like that version of the photo.
Maybe it's just that she doesn't really release music that often, or maybe she's too much of a perfectionist, but she just hasn't stuck around like it seemed she might.
If you're wondering why the project — which started back in 2011 — is still in the works, Reuters may have part of the answer: Apple is being ridiculously perfectionist about it.
JG: John Lasseter, who is in charge of both Pixar and Disney Animation, is such a perfectionist, he never wants to do anything unless it's worthy of continuing the story.
It feels as if the deeply dissatisfied perfectionist is looking back at us—shuffling her papers, preparing for her final scene—ready to scold us for getting her story wrong.
Find a balance between "not being too much of a perfectionist" about the first few videos you are putting out and "not taking too long to produce content," she said.
It's Beyoncé exactly as she wants us to see her and has always wanted us to see her: as a perfectionist, and as the hardest-working person in show business.
I want to become less of a perfectionist (but still reaching most of my goals) and become less stressed and confident in my abilities, so I chose the word faith.
It seems fitting that Chaplin, a perfectionist and multi-tasker, chose Switzerland, a country famous for precision in everything from luxury watches to Roger Federer's backhand, as his retirement home.
Such issues largely came under Mr. Moran's supervision, but will now fall to Mr. Ells, a self-described perfectionist who founded Chipotle in 1993 with a loan from his father.
"It's Beyoncé exactly as she wants us to see her and has always wanted us to see her: as a perfectionist, and as the hardest-working person in show business." 
" This question begs a humblebrag response like, "I'm too much of a perfectionist" or "I find it difficult to take breaks from my desk because I'm such a hard worker.
Her son, Nick (Frank Dillane), was a heroin addict, and her daughter, Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), was the sort of perfectionist who suggests someone trying desperately to hold themselves together.
It's all so fluid and empowering, and I allow myself to be a bit less of a perfectionist and accept the different feelings and emotions life throws at me, every day.
"The truth of the matter is you have to be a perfectionist," he told CNBC, adding that to succeed in a creative industry, you need to be both tenacious and compromising.
In the exclusive trailer for Netflix's upcoming movie Nappily Ever After, Lathan plays Violet Jones, a perfectionist with a high-powered corporate job and a doctor boyfriend — until she loses both.
HARD. I'm such a perfectionist (in some aspects of life, that is) and it's very hard for me to just chill out, arch my back and correct my seemingly poor posture.
"I think it will be a really wonderful and horrible day when it's actually released because I am a perfectionist and I can't listen to anything I've ever made," she confides.
She gives her readers permission not to care too much about always doing their best on the job, because, as she reveals, she knows what it is to be a perfectionist.
Also, with Jupiter in perfectionist Virgo, we can overdo it, and work a little too hard to prove ourselves, even putting on a false front in the name of being liked.
She has sex to numb the pain of her best friend's death, loves aggravating her cruel godmother (a glorious Olivia Colman) and struggles to connect with her perfectionist sister (Sian Clifford).
He is something of a perfectionist, his room filled with art books; a recent afternoon was spent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his sketchbook, seeking new poses and costumes.
No matter what medium he worked in, Conner remained true to his perfectionist impulses while employing inexpensive materials and processes, often nothing more than a pen, scissors, glue, and light sensitive paper.
" Which, ultimately prompts Corcoran to spill her 2 cents on profitable business strategy: "And you know who puts themselves out of business the fastest in all kinds of business ... is the perfectionist.
Steve Jobs heard about the thermostat and wanted to see it too, but by the time Fadell felt it was perfect enough to show to the perfectionist, Jobs was on his deathbed.
Because Lauryn is such a perfectionist, she always sought to give the fans what they wanted, so a simple run to the grocery store had to have the right heels and jeans.
Tucci is Secondo, responsible for the restaurant's front of house, and Tony Shalhoub is Primo, the restaurant's perfectionist chef, incensed that the "philistine" American patrons of his restaurant don't like his risotto.
They don't realize the collaborative culture they've walked into, and do not develop reputations for being team players in a company that was perfectionist and content-controlling long before Kennedy came along.
At a New York Fashion Week event for press, Eva Chen, Instagram's director of fashion partnerships, noted a shift in the types of photos being posted: There are fewer posed, perfectionist shots.
And while there's nothing wrong with wanting to succeed and make this year (or life) as great as it can be, you may want to fight the urge to be a perfectionist.
Praised for what The New York Times calls its "confessional voice," the blog has become a darling of the culinary world, counting lifestyle perfectionist Gwyneth Paltrow among its legions of devoted followers.
Well she's a perfectionist, so in our relationship, first, for me was to try and assure her that it was as good as it was, because she'll go looking for flat notes.
Established in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes in upstate New York, Oneida was imagined as a shining Perfectionist utopia, free from the tarnish of conventional morality ("sticky love") and repressive social structures.
"Igor" is his most cohesive, sonically rich, and innovative project to date, hailed as "meticulously crafted" (Rolling Stone) and "the work of a perfectionist giving shape to his more radical ideas" (Pitchfork).
Here's something you should know about me: I'm a perfectionist by nature, and I have some serious people-pleasing tendencies — which is an incredibly dangerous combination in a cutthroat industry like modeling.
He was a perfectionist who knew aerodynamics well, said Bill Lattin, president of the Southern California Timing Association, which is to host a major racing event at the Salt Flats in August.
She was a perfectionist — she asked Cristóbal Balenciaga to design her gardening clothes — with an eye for the just-so imperfection, be it a frayed antique chair or an overgrown garden path.
You're a perfectionist and you've got taste, Virgo, but don't be a snob—now's the time to be open-minded and value different ideas, and most of all, to trust your intuition.
Like Dr. Dre, with whom he spent a lot of time before and during the film shoot, Mr. Hawkins is a hard-working perfectionist who's keenly aware of what he's up against.
In the film, Jennifer Lopez plays Mary Fiore (yes, Jennifer Lopez is supposed to be Italian—we'll get to that later), a perpetually single, perfectionist workaholic who plans weddings for a living.
Anthony Mangieri is the Mies van der Rohe of Manhattan's pizzaioli, a God-is-in-the-details perfectionist who does his finest work when he restricts himself to the fewest elements ($19).
And I enjoyed this collective appreciation of the work of Madeleine Kamman, "an obsessive perfectionist, brilliant, gifted, generous, and brutally warm-hearted" chef, who died this summer at the age of 87.
He told me one of his students was married to an abusive perfectionist who threw her through a glass window when he was upset that she wasn't living up to his expectations.
Kanye is a perfectionist who continues to tweak everything he does until it's exactly the way he wants it; consider how he was still updating his most recent album even after releasing it.
IT WAS NOT João Gilberto's fault, and as a perfectionist no doubt he suffered from it more than anyone, that his greatest hit, "The Girl from Ipanema", has been mutilated into supermarket Muzak.
RENEE, SAN DIEGO Are you honestly asking whether you should foster a continued loving relationship between your children and their former nanny or enter into some perfectionist, competitive bake-off with your friends?
The clothes are supposed to be more than just stylish stuff to sweat in — they're meant to be anti-perfectionist, empowering, and also, they aim to fill a void in the activewear realm.
We can all get together on those issues without also having to subscribe to some kind of weird perfectionist understanding of what the natural world is and what our place in it is.
In this instance, though, she's offered something a little deeper, something rich and layered that proves, above all, that she's a musician in the truest sense, an artist with a strong perfectionist streak.
Bowlin argues for a "perfectionist account of tolerance," by which he means to defend it not as a modus vivendi for today's problems of disagreement and difference, but as a timeless moral virtue.
You may be clicking through it for the rest of today, but at least your inner perfectionist will know that you've done all your homework and thoroughly educated yourself on the true Met experience.
It has also introduced a new perfectionist culture of carefully curated lives viewed through social media, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the City University of New York, told Axios.
Instagram's latest update includes a tool that's ideal for every perfectionist — or anyone who spends time editing a photo in the app, only to get distracted by something else and lose their hard work.
Friends believe that I must be a "secret perfectionist" even though I use a bib when I eat soup and spent two years of my life as a low-wage children's birthday party entertainer.
Koons is a perfectionist who often takes years to make each sculpture; (ii) Mr. Koons provides only estimated completion dates for the sculptures; and (iii) those estimated dates are often extended by multiple years.
I learned the hard way that being a perfectionist can be beneficial and build you up, like getting good grades, but can also tear you down and consume you in a sea of stress.
A notorious perfectionist, Stanley Kubrick sent detailed instructions to projectionists showing "Barry Lyndon," his 1975 masterpiece, which was revolutionary for its candlelit cinematography and its exacting use of period music (including Handel and Schubert).
"It's a real problem — those social media images end up serving as yard sticks that people can compare themselves to, and a perfectionist is always trying to keep up with the Joneses," Sherry said.
Kanye West seems to be quite the perfectionist, as he is thanking fans for their understanding as he tweaks a few tracks on his album — the one that was supposed to be available at midnight.
For other examples, look no further than Reese Witherspoon's fashion designer Melanie in Sweet Home Alabama, Anne Hathaway's editorial assistant Andy in The Devil Wears Prada, or Sanaa Lathan's perfectionist accountant Kenya in Something New.
I identify with the idea that it's important to work through rather than leaving, although, as a perfectionist, that can also make me feel more trapped, as though I am a failure if I leave.
I'm such a perfectionist and I've been one to wait until things are almost perfect because even though I know perfect doesn't exist, in my mind [I wanted to wait] until things were perfect enough.
The notoriously perfectionist director is a co-founder of the cinema institute Cimatheque, one of the few independent cultural institutions still holding together a precarious existence in the face of unprecedented pressures from the state.
A perfectionist in his field, Rousseau is enlisting an entire team of chefs, ambassadors, and bartenders to assist him in adequately training for the top title at the 2016 World Class Global Final in Miami.
Biggest weakness: Muguruza tends to lose sight of the bigger picture and focus too much on being a perfectionist on occasion, a trait that opponents can take advantage of to rattle the world number three.
Q-Tip gets respect here for his brilliance and ambition, but Abdurraqib likens him to a perfectionist older brother: demanding and a bit aloof, seemingly oblivious to how hard Phife was trying to prove himself.
While I fully believe the perfectionist Cohen could have committed himself to the Mercury role in a way that did the frontman justice, it's still very hard to separate the man from his iconic comedic characters.
PERRY: Well, I mean, I think there has been some resistance in Congress to Trump&aposs authority on his own to unilaterally impose these perfectionist policies, and so I think there is some blowback in Congress.
Nearly 60 of his voluptuous, perfectionist pen-and-wash drawings (out of some 800) have traveled from the National Library of France for "Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect," a bewitching exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Well-known for being a perfectionist, Alaïa would work on a single creation for as much time as needed before unveiling it to the public (needless to say, he didn't follow the industry's strict show schedule).
Considering his perfectionist approach to pizza and the annoyances baked into ordering at his shop, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine Beddia with a brusque vibe similar to those found in Philly's neon cheesesteak windows.
Martin Scorsese, who directed Lewis as an arrogant talk show host in the 1982 cult classic, "The King of Comedy," certainly thought so, believing Lewis to be both a pioneer and perfectionist among comedy film directors.
In elementary and middle school, I was Elle Woods crossed with Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Amy Santiago — a perfectionist who spent my evenings rewriting my school notes and then typing them out because they weren't perfect yet.
Sherry was a perfectionist, both in her personal style—"She always had perfect hair, perfect nails, perfect, perfect, perfect," McGovern recalled—and in the clean lines, white walls, and spotless, plastic-covered furniture of her home.
In an effort to dismantle the perfectionist ideal, Saujani has been airing her personal failures and vulnerabilities publicly on Instagram with the hashtag #FailureFriday — like losing her son in public and failing her practice driver's test.
Film Series A notorious perfectionist, Stanley Kubrick sent detailed instructions to projectionists showing "Barry Lyndon," his 1975 masterpiece, which was revolutionary for its candlelit cinematography and its exacting use of period music (including Handel and Schubert).
So I—being the perfectionist of a cook that I am—drove twenty minutes to a Latino grocery store and found the precise white cornmeal that would give everyone's arepas a nice, crisp crust and fluffy interior.
He isn't a psychotic perfectionist or someone who stows a sleeping bag in the corner of his office closet, but it'd be easier to teach a squirrel how to speak Italian than to catch Bzdelik cutting corners.
" Higgins, who has covered Miyazato for 12 years, said the attention took a toll because the player is a perfectionist who "wants to play well, be good with media, speak perfect English and be liked by others.
Named the "chef of the century" by the Gault et Millau cooking guide in 1990, Robuchon was regarded as a perfectionist, toiling to make even ordinary seeming dishes — such as mashed potatoes — the very best they could be.
But maybe I'm just a perfectionist and people don't care if they're blocking one side or if their arm or tripod is visible (kind of like how they don't care about selfie sticks in all of their pics).
The emotions that have been brewing beneath the surface, as you've been trying to play it cool during Virgo season (a sign that's down to earth and practical—and a perfectionist, which stresses you out), will bubble up.
Mr. Fazulzyanov, who combines the poetic spirituality of an artist with the exacting eye of a perfectionist, added that he pushes himself to depict not only an element of nature but a specific moment in its life cycle.
While the sitcom, like its 1970s predecessor "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," focused on the workplace, it included scenes from the main character's home life, many of which featured the actor Robert Pastorelli as a perfectionist house painter.
For some, Father Ratzinger embodied a musical perfectionist who sought success above all else, while others recalled him as being quick with a slap, and having no compunction against throwing a chair or music stand into the choir.
Spending time in the studio appealed to Ms. Jordan's perfectionist impulses ("There's so much shaker on the record, it's sick," she boasted), and being a full-time artist has also allowed her to indulge her interest in fashion.
Various effigies depict the maestro as a cantankerous old man confined to his wheelchair in his final years or as a dictatorial, short-tempered perfectionist on the podium at the height of his career during the Nazi years.
As much as Venus in Virgo will encourage you to socialize, you'll have to be picky as hell about who you spend time with (which, honestly, is no problem with Venus in Virgo, a sign that's definitely a perfectionist).
He and his players have such good rapport that during certain stretches of the performance Mr. Muti, despite his reputation as an exacting perfectionist, essentially dropped his hands to his sides and just kept a watchful eye on things.
That's what makes your Lip Sync Battles and your Carpool Karaokes potentially entertaining: You're typically watching a professional perfectionist devote considerable energy to something low-stakes and silly, and when everything is held in balance, it's fun to watch.
"She was a great filmmaker and an absolute perfectionist," Susan Lacy, the creator and former executive producer of the PBS documentary series "American Masters," who worked with Ms. Adato on two films in that series, said in a telephone interview.
Knowing Taylor is a perfectionist, and that Taylor Mason Capital's team of brainiac market-math "quants" is the pride of their firm, Axe launches an infuriatingly subtle scheme to make penny-ante trades simply to screw up their predicted results.
And, like many other students, Emily Lane Player from Hoggard High School, felt pressure from her family to be successful: I would not label myself as a perfectionist, I always try to do my best and go with the flow.
She is in no rush to release another album, and for someone like her, who is both a mid-career artist and a perfectionist, an album might not bring in enough money to justify the years it would take to record.
Gates admits that she's also suffered from self-doubt in a recent LinkedIn post and gives four tips to overcome this negative emotion: In her video interview, Huffington adds that you're more likely to experience self-judgment if you're a perfectionist.
He remembers a patient who self-identified as a perfectionist who casually mentioned in their first meeting that when she was five years old, her parents had sent her away to live with relatives while they arranged the family's overseas move.
Owner Ralf Rüller, a former investment banker, "is the ultimate coffee perfectionist, and his delicious croissants are so in demand that they can only be bought two at a time, to prevent them from running out too quickly," Magers says.
By all accounts he was a perfectionist, by many a bully; he made the Jets and the Sharks take lunch breaks separately, and a caricature here, made by a "West Side Story" actor, pictures Robbins as a bullwhip-wielding taskmaster.
Kerrigan, ever the perfectionist and known to suffer from nerves, told People, "I've been a fighter all my life," and told Newsweek that she had "a strange feeling there's going to be a big applause when I go out there" on the rink.
The 27-year-old perfectionist Sjoestroem was disappointed with her winning 242.96m free time of 21sec, well adrift of her world record 13 but then she did have to be back in the pool in 21 minutes, tackling the 42.96.36m butterfly semi-finals.
For those who've never taken a stab at art and are maybe too perfectionist to allow themselves the freedom to play around in an unfamiliar medium, a cannabis painting class might be just what the doctor ordered to remove some of those inhibitions.
Of the three general categories, holding others to perfectionist standards had little to no relationship with suicidal ideation; demanding perfection from oneself or feeling that it was being demanded by others, though, showed a small to moderate positive relationship with suicidal thoughts.
She was a deeply driven perfectionist, and her views on assimilation (it's always minorities under pressure to assimilate) and about constraining herself in predominantly white power structures were a reminder (among other things) that it's so hard to be an individual in politics.
CreditCreditEwan Burns for The New York Times The villains in Megan Abbott's twisted crime novels are often combative, hypercompetitive women and girls: elite cheerleaders; perfectionist gymnasts and their drill-sergeant moms; a cunning crime boss and her back-stabbing, power-hungry underling.
Reagan O'Shea from Boston, Ma., similarly described the mental and emotional toll of perfectionism: Growing up in a world in which the pressure to succeed and stand out is at its peak, it is difficult to not fall victim to being a "perfectionist".
" LH: "[Before a show] I listen to the songs I'll be dancing to, and I do the [dances] in my head while I'm in the car, because I'm a perfectionist, so I need to make sure I don't forget what I'm doing onstage.
In her next life, Nadia rushes to find this stranger, who turns out to be a neurotic perfectionist named Alan who also lives in the East Village and spends his days working out, wearing perfectly crisp Oxford shirts, and reciting empowerment mantras to himself.
After too many disheartening days in the studio trying to Ob-La-do this the exact way that perfectionist Paul wanted, John saved the song by getting "more stoned than you have ever been" and banging out the tune at double speed on the piano.
Already I'm hearing more frequently from accomplished leaders (particularly women who face double-bind dilemmas) that they are increasingly afraid to hold themselves and others to high standards because they fear being labeled a rigid Type-A perfectionist who is difficult to work with.
In fact, the best thing they ever did for me was to discourage my perfectionist tendencies – indeed, when I was in elementary school, my dad offered to buy me a present if I got a C. It happened when I was in third grade.
And while he is shooting 71.6 percent on free throws during his more frequent appearances with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the N.B.A. Development League, Rick Barry — ever the perfectionist — argues that Onuaku has flaws in his shot that he could help fix.
And Mr. Lee's objective is to define Jackson as a particular type of artist — a thoughtful, highly conscious perfectionist who never stopped honing his technique, rather than an instinctual physical genius who merely had to walk onstage, pop his hips and let out a falsetto shriek.
"I'm a perfectionist with everything that I do, and when comes to my appearance I really go the extra mile," says Alves, who hopes his latest procedure will help improve the appearance of scars leftover from his acne and an eyebrow lift he had two years ago.
It's hard to diagnose because sometimes what is unfinished is just because it's not finished, not because of some perfectionist, protective urge, and sometimes what is done but hasn't been released is not work that's supposed to endure any kind of promotional or critical spin-cycle.
Normally, lash extensions can last up to six weeks if you take good care of them, but because I'm such a perfectionist, I wanted them off altogether once they started to fall out and removed them once I got home to the UK, after about two weeks.
A tedious perfectionist, the fans who feel that they are hard-pressed to find more than four songs by him online, is an ode to his unwavering love for writing and for presenting songs with a strong, concise concept, which he admits takes him longer than most.
Adult Swim's Singles Program has released "Only Once Away My Son," a 9-minute collaboration between Eno and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, the shoegaze great and relentless perfectionist who's only released music in drips and drabs over the course of the last couple of decades.
Comprised primarily of reworked interpretations of previously released material, including songs from his 2013 indie folk manifesto "The Weatherman," Isakov's sixth album finds him surrendering some of his perfectionist tendencies to a process made at once simpler and more complex by the addition of a full orchestra.
While no one can be certain what has transpired between Mr. Ocean, his label, Def Jam and Apple Music since a video stream started earlier this week showing Mr. Ocean woodworking next to the streaming service's logo, the singer is a notorious and self-described perfectionist.
The play between paint and object reveals Mr. Rockenschaub as the rare perfectionist who doesn't take perfection too seriously, and he's even better when he lets his hair down, as he does in five small, inscrutable paintings — hieroglyphs, really — of dashed black lines on lacquered MDF.
It doesn't quite succeed, but it's still enormously fun to spend a rainy Saturday on the couch watching Haley, the bad girl of gymnastics, try to singlehandedly remake her notoriously perfectionist sport — and to rehabilitate her reputation a year after she threw in the towel at Nationals.
"Jimmy had an incredible eye for detail and was truly gifted at visualizing space, and was also a bit of a perfectionist," recalled Ms. Bresnahan, whose own talents in this arena extended no further than scraping window frames and handing her boyfriend tools as he requested them.
This utopian fantasy rests on a positive, vaguely perfectionist view of human nature: Rather than being doomed by original sin to conflict, prejudice, hatred and an insatiable will to power, men and women are by nature communitarian, inclined to fellowship and the seeking of common ground.
There was something about assigning numbers to food that fed into my perfectionist tendencies, and, after signing up for that initial meeting, it took me less than a year to get to my goal weight — a shiny number that represented a happier, healthier, more in-control and successful Sophie.
Even successful people can suffer from procrastination, Christine Li, a clinical psychologist and procrastination coach, tells CNBC Make It. The desire to be a perfectionist and gather as much information as possible before making a decision can hold high-performing people back from finishing certain tasks and moving forward.
But the painful case of Freddy Trump, eight years his brother's senior and once the heir apparent to their father's real estate empire, also serves as an example of the dangers of failing to conform in a family dominated by a driven, perfectionist patriarch and an aggressive younger brother.
While his stagings are intensely musical — during "Pelléas" rehearsal, in which he was a busy, perfectionist presence, one was struck by the sheer number of scores in use, by the precision with which the singers' movements were tied to the sense of the notes — they are vertiginously complex.
"I'm not a perfectionist," Nacho Alegre, the Barcelonese polymath — magazine editor, photographer, bar owner, creative director — said recently, driving past pig farms and citrus trees to his home in La Tallada d'Empordà, a medieval village in the Girona province of Catalonia, an hour and a half northeast from Barcelona.
This energizing show, which opens on Monday, presents a perfectionist with a curious eye and a strong work ethic who all but obliterated the line between commerce and art by dint of meticulous concentration, an innate classical style and a quiet respect for every subject he took on.
After watching Kevin (Justin Hartley) fall deep into the jaws of addiction and witnessing Kate (Chrissy Metz) cope with the tragedy of miscarriage, the final installment of This Is Us' Big Three episode trilogy — and the final episode of 2017 — will focus on family man/resident perfectionist Randall (Sterling K. Brown).
He is from a modest background and a childhood colored by the tragic Dunblane school shootings, and he has always worn his ambitions and perfectionist streak on his short sleeves, shouting, cursing and hungering for more from himself at a tournament better accustomed to subtler local heroes (see Tim Henman).
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Owned by an Irish-American perfectionist named Michael O'Keeffe (better known as Buzzy), the restaurant has employed just six chefs, all of whom arrived virtually unknown and went on to national prominence: Larry Forgione, Charlie Palmer, David Burke, Rick Moonen, Rick Laakkonen and the current chef of 262 years, Brad Steelman.
Then the students were randomly assigned to four interventions: a control group were told to rest but practiced no meditation; the second practiced progressive muscle relaxation; the third a standard meditation that focused on breathing; and the last listened to a meditation that urged the perfectionist to stop judging themselves.
To hear him tell it in recent interviews—and, quite frankly, as can be gleaned just from a studied listen to the album—The Colour in Anything is the release on which James Blake has learned to be less of a fussy perfectionist, and, by extension, to become a far more compelling artist.
Jupiter is currently in perfectionist Virgo, hanging out in the sector of your chart that rules communication, while Saturn's in Sag, spending time in the area of daily chores and responsibilities— you'll feel pressure on both ends, so try to face the energy by being as honest and hardworking as you can.
On top of wearing the mini dress version of her white off-the-shoulder Vivienne Westwood Met Gala gown, the makeup mogul and "perfectionist" (according to mom Kris Jenner) made sure her house — where she hosted the launch — was in tip-top shape for all the beauty influencers, celebrities, friends and family that came out to support.
" As for the film itself, O'Hara says, "Oh, I can't wait – I'm really excited about it," noting that producer Don Hahn, a Disney veteran who produced the original animated film, "tells me wonderful things – and I know what a perfectionist Don is, so I'm sure if he likes it, it's gonna be great … I hope I'm there opening night!
TLOP has changed twice in the past two days, as the notorious perfectionist tweaked the beat and part of a verse on "Famous," released a reworked version of "Wolves" featuring Vic Mensa and Sia who were both on the pre-album edition of the track, and added an extra song "Frank's Track" (which was formerly the outro to "Wolves").
So if something happens that doesn't work, especially if you're a perfectionist — Type A child of Asian immigrants — you're likely to constantly blame yourself and take everything really personally, which is also just bad for employee morale, because the great people you hire have their own ways of doing things and are not extensions of you.
I'm somebody that I want for everybody to see my mistakes—and k-os may have changed but at the time, he had this perfectionist attitude to where he didn't want people to see his shortcomings, his mistakes; he wanted to get to the other side and present the cleaner, fixed, prettier versions of things, like just the solution.
He cites surveys that show that adolescent girls are increasingly unhappy with their bodies, and that a growing number of men are suffering from muscle dysmorphia; he interviews psychologists and professors who describe an epidemic of crippling anxiety among university students yoked to the phenomenon of "perfectionist presentation"—the tendency, especially on social media, to make life look like a string of enviable triumphs.
Though her floor-length white dress and the circlet of woven baby's breath that adorned her head suggested someone who has entertained a fairy-tale wedding fantasy or two, her choice of venue offered a better sense of her down-to-earth, anti-perfectionist attitude: She and Mr. McKinley were wed in a one-minute ceremony at the Office of the City Clerk in Manhattan.
Eclipses flush things out from our lives that we no longer need; with this eclipse being in minimalist, perfectionist Virgo, it would be wise for you to weed through your belongings and get rid of stuff that you're no longer using, like your ex's sweater or the "skinny jeans" that haven't motivated you at all and have only served to make you feel like garbage whenever you find them in your closet.
In the wake of this most recent tragic case, let us hope that the UK government changes its laws to give parents the freedom to care for their disabled children and, most importantly, turns away from a perfectionist conception of "best interests" so hostile to imperfection, disability, and dependence that it mandates the death of those who are not suffering nor imminently dying simply because their lives have been judged by able-bodied strangers to be no longer worth living.
Now, more than 19883 years later, this slacker-perfectionist not only finds himself a part-billionaire, but he also enjoys newfound cultural currency as the husband and father in a genetically blessed family of supermodels who can be seen everywhere these days, including a Pepsi commercial to be aired during the Super Bowl (starring his wife and son), the current cover of French Vogue (daughter), the global advertising campaign for Calvin Klein Jeans (daughter and son) and, of course, Omega watches (entire family).
This goes back to his breakout role in "Thelma & Louise," in which he plays a very intentional object of female desire called J.D. It was Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, who advocated that he be cast (over Clooney, among others), though the director, Ridley Scott, soon understood what Pitt was bringing to his brief yet pivotal role: For Thelma and J.D.'s sex scene, Scott, a visual perfectionist with an enduring love of glistening wet surfaces, sprayed Evian water on Pitt's chest to give it sheen.
The season 2 fall finale of the NBC family drama featured our resident perfectionist, played by Sterling K. Brown, enduring a day of emotional overmuch: Not only was he seeking to comfort Kate on the phone and trying to manage his vodka-swilling brother who showed up at his doorstep, Randall wrestled with the painful decision to bid farewell to Deja (Lyric Ross), the guarded foster child who initially recoiled at his approach but over the last few weeks had grown to groan at his humor and embrace life as a Pearson.

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