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Your perfectionist tendencies tell you not to go out into the world until Ruburt can walk normally and proudly. Your perfectionist tendencies—I refer to both of you—tell you that it is a crime for either of you to have a problem, whether or not the rest of the world is filled with chaos.

Perfectionists, however, not only take a dim view of problems, but consider each one a blot, a proof of inferiority in themselves or others and they see such blots everywhere. They are in a certain fashion overly conscientious, and they fear spontaneity lest it be less than perfect. They fear flaws.

[...] In fact, that kind of rage is the mark of a perfectionist caught in what seems to be the grasp of a world not only imperfect, but evil.

(Long pause at 4:28.) Individuals who suffer from epilepsy are also often perfectionists — trying so hard to be at their best that they end up with a very uneven, jerky physical behavior.

Both of you have strong perfectionist tendencies, and they are used most constructively as a rule in your works. [...]

[...] That was what he was afraid of in the light of your perfectionist tendencies. [...]

[...] He seems to be in awe, relatively speaking, of your simplified “perfectionist” detailed ways, while to a certain extent you seem to be in awe of his inspired undetailed ways—a game each of you play.

In his own way of course he is also a perfectionist, and felt himself falling far short. [...]

[...] These people are often perfectionists at heart. [...]

Now, for openers: you are in your individual ways perfectionists. [...]

[...] They did at one time operate in a perfectionist kind of demand that Ruburt be perfect physically. [...]

Lately he was convinced that he was unattractive to you from the face down, that you considered him stupid, as he did, while having physical difficulty; that you were a perfectionist and did not want to see crooked legs—that physically, not mentally, he got in your way, and that physically you did not look upon him with approval, as he did not.

The people who died were idealists — perfectionists of exaggerated quality, whose very desire for the good was tainted and distorted by those beliefs just mentioned. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt you were a perfectionist, both in your work and in what you demanded of others and yourself.

[...] To some extent these people are perfectionists, and in their activities there are always hints of “super” achievement, as if even physically the species tries to go beyond itself. [...]

You do have strong perfectionist leanings. [...]

[...] He was a man of the strongest purpose, high dedication, a severe perfectionist who drove himself and his students. [...]

[...] In many of these cases there is a severe problem and a certain rigidity coupled with the perfectionist characteristics mentioned earlier.

Others less perfectionist than myself are content with more distortion. [...]

[...] Your mother had produced two beautiful boys; and she was also a perfectionist in her way, and in her framework — one never understood by your father.

[...] Therefore the distortions are much less distortive, much less harmful, and more easily discovered and cleared … Others less perfectionist than myself are content with more distortion. [...]

[...] He seems to be in awe, relatively speaking, of your simplified “perfectionist” detailed ways, while to a certain extent you seem to be equally awed by his inspired, undetailed ways — a game each of you plays.