Sabaa Tahir Quotes

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

My parents always supported me, but I was put to task. My father thought when I sang, I was sharp; my mother was upset when I wasn't in the first line at recitals.

My parents, they were just really strict on things being perfect.

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

My mum and dad were a little like tiger parents. I hate that, but at the same time, I am a little bit proud.