perfectionist

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.

Almost fiercely she was bent upon making him the moral perfectionist she had made Merle.

Do you think that is because you are a sensitive perfectionist as far as the language is concerned?

A perfectionist, my guru was hypercritical of his disciples, whether in matters of moment or in the subtle nuances of behavior.

That doesn't mean he is a perfectionist in many things, that he etches as well as he paints, that he composes as well as he draws.