Skill Perfectionist Gifts

'Let's practice lobs again.'

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

A presenter with a very complex chart to explain a business plan - 'And it's as simple as that!'

Bullseye!

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

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

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

'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.'

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

Perfection

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

'In an inexplicable attack of nerves, Elliot becomes the first person ever to screw up John Cage's 4'33'.

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

Cuts, Measurements, Certain, Sloppy

'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."

A tailor measuring a jacket.

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

The battle of the pianos.

"For tonight's performance I have stripped everything, as far as possible, down to the "urtext" edition."

'How's the ringtone coming along, Ludwig?'

"Page 33, line 4..."

A conductor practising in front of a mirror.

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

"Come on, we're late. Your crosshatching looks fine."

"For our market research, each package needs to be individually marked off and put over there."

Cull people who talk and text during a concert you've paid good money to see.

"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..."