Practical Perfectionist Gifts

"Sir, you may find this book very helpful, too."

"Why can't the rest of you be more like Rollins, here? He does his homework!"

Bullseye!

"Gals, you know I hate being the center of attention, so for the next 45 minutes I am going to monologue about all the minute details of my wedding planning."

"I think you might need to start again."

"We find it as long as you manage the inputs, the outputs will look after themselves."

"Hmmm, this might just be not funny enough for The New Yorker."

"I think we should try something a little simpler."

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

'The project is a little behind schedule. It was proactive, now it's retroactive.'

'Then it's settled. We'll make 7 million with blue handles, 5 million with red handles, 4 million with purple handles and 2 million with green handles.'

'I told you, you were missing a decimal point.'

Man and woman buying furniture.

"I've heard of being organized, but isn't this a little obsessive compulsive?"

Three work boxes: 'IN...LIMBO...OUT': 'I think I've found your bottleneck.'

"Queen begins with Q, it should be precisely here."

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

Perfection

Is it a book? A film? A TV show? How do you mime a podcast?

"I'm afriad we had to cancel the 'perfect planning ' seminar. We forgot to book the hotel until it was to late and the speaker we hoped to use died in 1958."

"Or should it be scrum or kanban???"

'Regarding our deadline - have we moved to long-range planning or still stuck in short-term excuses?'

'Daft title. How could you have 'backward' planning?'

Cuts, Measurements, Certain, Sloppy

'You should have ordered one. This is the only one left in the shop!'

Christmas Present Wrapping Service.

"I propose we go with the second option."

'I'm a narcissist? - Are you saying I'm not perfect?'

'Excellent. But try it again and this time start your sway at the beginning of the fourth bar, O.K.?'

'I don't want to be a shepherd. I want to be the policeman who interrupts the play to tell all the mummys and daddys who have parked irresponsibly and dangerously outside to move their cars...'

"You're welcome."

"Being happy with one's work is the kiss of death."

We thought we'd put in the detail later.

A tailor measuring a jacket.