Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

You can't have a perfect show every time.

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

Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

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.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

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

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

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

We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

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.

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.

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

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect; nobody is.

I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

When you plan something, it never works.

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