Damon Lindelof Quotes

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

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

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

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.

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

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

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.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

Fans are demanding. They want to win. They want it now. If you have an injury, they want you back the next day.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

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

I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do.

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.