Word: perfectionist
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...perfectionist, but l also have to keep in mind that I am not going to stop every shot," Leary said. "You'll go crazy unless you can put the last shot behind...
...stories go on. When her grandmother died, a cousin relates, Nancy pleaded that she couldn't help pay for a gravestone, even though no one else in the family could afford one. In the White House Nancy was such a perfectionist that she could spend "an entire day deliberating on the amount of nutmeg to be shaved into a chicken veloute sauce." Her much vaunted anti- drug crusade, Kelley suggests, was little more than a public relations ploy...
...catastrophic event that could destroy him. Individuals with dependent personalities who lose their jobs may feel abandoned and show their frustration by, for instance, voting against the party in power. Those who usually feel in control of every situation may be especially stunned by unexpected economic setbacks. "The perfectionist will think all his achievements have been to no avail," says Cassius. "The masochist, by contrast, will now be happy again...
Sadly, about 20 percent of college women have some form of eating disorder. We are well qualified to say that issues of food and body image form an undercurrent of silent pain in the Harvard student population, where the perfectionist environment drives women and men to avoid criticism however they...
...founded Tiffany & Co., and son Louis (1848-1933) was born with a vermeil spoon in his mouth. Louis remains a shadowy figure, energetic and Victorian stolid. He married twice, had six children and became infatuated with building and decorating his 84-room mansion, Laurelton Hall, on Long Island. A perfectionist, he sometimes smashed work by his artisans that did not meet his standards...