perfectionism

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Legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was known for brutal honesty and unyielding perfectionism that led to culture-changing devices.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

He has little of Karp’s genteel bedside manner or public profile and is known instead for an unforgiving style and hard-driving perfectionism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

"It helped me channel my perfectionism, taking it out of the dark and into the light and dissipating that shame."

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

The singer said she suspects she’ll be battling that toxic perfectionism for the rest of her life, but she’s gotten better at banishing it to the backseat.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

His perfectionism seemed absolute, even when they took walks to other villages and he insisted on quizzing her about the Latin names of plants they saw.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French