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...opposite end of the emotional spectrum is the low-key Inoue, a perfectionist whose pre-tournament ritual consists of cleaning his room until it is as spotless as his fighting record. Obsessive-compulsive tendencies have served him well. His college coach, Hidetoshi Nakanishi, remembers seeing Inoue for the first time as an 11-year-old, practicing each day until his coaches would force him to stop. Even then, Nakanishi says, "I knew he was someone to be looking forward to." Nonetheless, Inoue's gold-medal-winning performance at Sydney was a shock. To earn first place, judokas have...
...proud that my knowledge went beyond mere stats. I liked that I knew Paul O’Neil was a relentless perfectionist who would practice his swing while exiled to the long lulls of right field play, or that Bernie Williams considered a career as a jazz guitarist before settling on baseball...
Like most of the Martha wannabes who have been grabbing the spotlight since Stewart was indicted, Hay has a decidedly different gestalt. She may be a driven, ambitious perfectionist, but Hay would never embroider a sampler or make marshmallows at home. Her success is based on the premise that you can cook with as many shortcuts as possible. And that's a good thing...
Keller is regarded, even among America's top chefs, as a perfectionist. He is the first chef to win back-to-back best-chef awards from the James Beard Foundation, the Oscars of the restaurant industry. Since 1994 he has devoted himself single-mindedly to cooking in the 17-table French Laundry in the town of Yountville (pop. 2,916). The Napa Valley restaurant is regularly rated as one of the best in the nation--and one of the hardest at which to snare a reservation. Keller grosses about $7.5 million annually there, and his 1999 French Laundry cookbook...
...move over the past 18 months. "The only two ways we are going to fail is if the building is a flop, or if we fail as a team." He pauses and smiles faintly. "So the thing is, will the building fail?" And that, finally, is something even the perfectionist Thomas Keller cannot control...