Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

Now that I'm a XXL Freshman, you know, I feel like that sets high standards for me, and I feel like I have to deliver.

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.

As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.

The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.