Professional Perfectionist Gifts

'To err is human, but that's no excuse.'

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

Bullseye!

"I’ve seen better metaphors in my litter box."

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

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

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

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

'I was attracted to you but your online photo, but now that I've seen you in High-Def...'

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

Man and woman buying furniture.

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

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

Writer

"Wallace couldn't come, but I brought some of his fussy prose."

Poetry repairman

Perfection

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

"I think she marked yours in blue pen because she used up all her red on mine."

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

'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...'

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

"You're welcome."

Cuts, Measurements, Certain, Sloppy

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

A tailor measuring a jacket.

Desk trays - 'Do it' and 'Do it right this time'.

"Take away his brilliant prose, and he's just some depressed guy."

"Page 33, line 4..."

Nancy had written more pages, but Andrew had stacked his more neatly.

Woman trying to straighten a picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A conductor practising in front of a mirror.

"And on the eighth day, the Lord just puttered around..." "That cloud doesn't belong there. Did I do that? I'd better move it..."