Trisha Yearwood Quotes

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

I wanted to be a trophy wife, and I was fine with that. I thought I had my life written out - what it was going to be, what kind of woman I was going to be - and none of it happened.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.