Kelli White Quotes

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

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.

I guess I'm crazy. If everything was easy-peasy and green lights all the time, it'd be kind of boring.

It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

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.

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

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Are we having fun yet?

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

The more I get used to my life, the more restless I become.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.