Simone Elkeles Quotes

Senior year is supposed to be about being mentally done.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

High school sucks! It's hard.

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

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

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.

Every time I travel for work, I always think that maybe they'll be time to take in some of the local sights. But there never is.

I know what it's like to be in a difficult situation, where the results do not come in.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

I thought my high school would either be like 'Beverly Hills 90210' or 'Stand and Deliver' - it was just a run-of-the-mill high school.

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

In life, nothing is always fun.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed