Professional Perfectionist Pillows

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

'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.'

Poetry repairman

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

Writer

Perfection

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

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

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

Cuts, Measurements, Certain, Sloppy

"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."

I'm filling out my myface.com and I have a question. Rudy Park, tech genius, at your service. Should I pretend to be 10,12 or 26 years old? 32? I configure browsers, not fake personas! I think I'll play for the Broncos.

'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.

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

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

"Page 33, line 4..."

Wanting his picnic with Gwen to be perfect, Hal made sure they would not be bothered by ants.

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.

"I never go anywhere unprepared!"