Abba Eban Quotes

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

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.

High expectations produce high frustrations.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

When the premiere of the show came out, we threw a big party, and, like, five minutes into the party, me and Corey walked out of the party and said... 'No one's ever gonna watch this.'

When you want too much, you don't usually achieve much.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.