perfectionist
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Are these three subtitle terms — codependent, perfectionist, people-pleasing — interchangeable or interlinked?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
“If you didn’t have a type A personality and if you weren’t a bit of a perfectionist, you weren’t going to be a partner at Cravath,” Widen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
"I want to win everything, I want to be a perfectionist in everything. I'm a nightmare when we play Monopoly at home," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
"I'm a fierce perfectionist and there is an overactive, hugely self-critical voice in my head - my whole life is an exercise in trying to shake that," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Like all athletic greats, Woolf was a driving perfectionist.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
"We're all perfectionists and we want to put our best foot forward in every single performance."
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
That intrinsic level of care is present in “Hard Truths,” but without the fussiness that often feels present in films made by notorious perfectionists.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025
Clerks are type-A perfectionists, and all they want to do is do the job and do it right.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2024
Yuxin Sun, a psychologist in Seattle, sees a lot of clients at her group practice who insist they aren’t perfectionists.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
“And it’s a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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