Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

False expectations take away joy.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Failure was built into it by an extraordinary of exaggerated expectations.

After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.

I've had many setbacks.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

You can't always get what you want.

I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.