Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elizabeth Dole has not plotted out her future. While her husband seems carved in stone, she is a work in progress. She regards herself as a recovering perfectionist. "It is something that can take a lifetime to overcome," she has written, and she still has a way to go. "I'm very different than I was 10 years ago," she says evenly. "I thought I had to do everything 100% perfect. Now 98% works nicely." Despite her protestations, Elizabeth Dole cannot stop striving for a perfect solution to her spiritual quandary. A close associate, asked what it is that Dole...
...Shachar began Harvard as a computer science concentrator and as a "perfectionist," which, he explains, he distinguishes from his current ideal of excellence. After brief stints with economics, cognitive science, history, math, applied math and various combinations of all those with psychology, he is graduating with a double concentration in philosophy and psychology...
...Scalia] talked about how he spent hours on trivial bankruptcy cases, perfecting his prose," Pasquale says. "To a frightening extent, I am a perfectionist...
Thao Ho described her sister as an achiever, "She's pretty much a perfectionist," Thao Ho said. "She wanted to achieve in every area...
...friends say the killing is particularlytragic because it ended the hopes of a young womanwho rose from being a refugee from Vietnam to awell-liked student at Harvard. They painted animage of a young woman determined to succeed inthe face of daunting odds, a perfectionist drivenby awareness of a tough past...