Internal Standards Quotes

I'm my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself.

The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.

I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself.

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.