Scott Thompson Quotes

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

Are we having fun yet?

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.

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will be handled properly is just naive. But I think that's anyone's life, right? Even if you're running a construction site, it doesn't matter if you've been doing it for 20 years, you're still going to be blindsided by someone's incompetence or indifference.

And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it.

Anger is really disappointed hope.

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.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.