Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heatherton says students here may not becompletely representative of the generalpopulation because "a Harvard students tends to bea perfectionist which spills over into eatingpatterns...
...That's how I was raised in all sports," Farrell says. "My father was a perfectionist in his sport of baseball, and that's how he always taught me to practice, telling me how he always did it. And it was a way of getting to enjoy the game--the more you practice, the better you are, and for me personal satisfaction comes from success...
Jose Menendez:...A driven, relentless perfectionist of a man who brooks no failure from himself, his subordinates or his sons...Sarcastic and condescending to his unhappy wife, on whom he regularly cheats...clearly a man with deep anger...
Jordan's testiness with the press at his news conference was just another sign that he is not the blithe spirit advertisers make him out to be. He is a fierce and exacting perfectionist who does not suffer imperfection among his teammates. Over the years, there have been many stories of Jordan's hounding other Bulls, quarreling with his coaches, angling to bring other players to the team. In the 1993 play-offs, he almost gouged out the eye of Reggie Miller of the Indiana Pacers. He's a man who still feels burned by the fact that he once...
Despite his kids-in-the-hall casualness around the office, Letterman is a fiercely driven perfectionist who controls virtually every detail of his show. "There's more tension than any place I've ever worked," says an ex- staffer. Letterman rejects reams of material submitted by his team of a dozen writers, and he crosses off potential guests by the score. "We'd hand in a list of 50 guests, and he'd say no to 48," says a frustrated former booker. He is also notoriously moody and has last-minute pangs of self-doubt. "In the makeup room five...