Vera Wang Quotes

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

High expectations produce high frustrations.

No matter how angry people on the outside were when you don't perform well, a coach is 10 times what anyone else is feeling. Nothing digs at you more. But that's part of our business.

After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.

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

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life.

Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

I looked up at my mom, and I was like, 'Well, Mom, uh, when you really think about it, C's aren't really that bad. C's are average.' And I've never seen my mom so upset, to this day. I just saw this flash of fire in her eyes, and she yelled, 'Average? You are never allowed to be average, because you look like me.'

Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

I think it's true for all of us, if you find yourself doing really well at something, then the pressure is on you to try to improve.

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.