Hannah Kent Quotes

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

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I've always said my expectations are higher than what anyone else could put on me.

I have very high expectations out of myself.

I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

I'm my hardest critic because I know what I can do and I strive to be as perfect as I can be even though I know it's not possible.

I am tough on myself. It's just how I am. I hold myself to a standard.

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

As long as I'm out there and getting a chance to play, I expect to do well. No one is harder on themselves than me when I do bad, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.

I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.

It's not me feeling pressure, it's just me putting pressure on myself if I don't do my best, and I know I can do better.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

I feel like I put pressure on myself to perform well and to play well and to do well. That's what I expect of myself. It's not always going to happen, but I can certainly sort of put myself in the position where I can get the best out of myself.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

I am notoriously hard on myself in terms of working on new material and while I am critical of my performance on the Led Zeppelin material, I am way more critical of my own stuff. I'm pretty hard on myself.

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.