perfectionist

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• I suffered from the classic gifted child cliché of simultaneously being a perfectionist and also expecting everything to come easily to me, because a lot of things did come easily to me.

• These people, who are often perfectionists, do best when they split up a task into manageable parts, rather than feeling pressure to perform perfectly on a big, daunting project.

• We have a lot of people who identify as perfectionists, so this idea that they can’t guarantee that everyone will be perfectly safe causes a lot of guilt and anxiety.

• If you’re a perfectionist, you’ll want the thermometer, but if you’re a go-by-feel type, I think you’ll be fine without it.

• She spends her nights decorating her cakes with the painstaking angst of a perfectionist.

• This perfectionist, however, has become unhinged—just how Coupe likes it.

• They repeat tasks over and over with a ritualistic and often perfectionist bent.

• "Bernice Reig was always too much of a perfectionist to allow a franchised store out of her control," Mr. Hoch told us.

• Off the track, she had been a perfectionist pre-med student with a perfect GPA.

• She's a perfectionist and if she does give TV a go she'd give Oprah a run for her money!

• Nor is humanity itself fitted for the kind of transformation which fills the dreams of the perfectionist.