Trent Reznor Quotes

I was naive. Before 'Larrikins,' I thought passion, hard work, and a skill set will mean that anything you want to do will get done. I don't think that anymore.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Expectations are an evil thing.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

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.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

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

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.