Frank Gehry Quotes

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

I'm the only member of the house, who at age 16, and pregnant, was told in no uncertain terms, I'd never amount to anything.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

One of the most disconcerting phenomena of these times is the disparity between the enormous amount of idealist propaganda that goes on from pulpit, platform and press, and the inconsiderable effect that it seems to produce in the actual conduct of men and of nations.

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why.

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

I had a somewhat charmed life. I was brought up at the BBC. I did meet so many people cleverer than myself in those years. Often, I was slapped down and made to feel not good enough.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.