Ryan Holiday Quotes

You can't have a perfect show every time.

High expectations produce high frustrations.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

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.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'm such a perfectionist and I want to do everything right, kick every goal, do everything perfectly, but that is not reality.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

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

Failure was built into it by an extraordinary of exaggerated expectations.

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

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

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Good is not good when better is expected.