Rigid Expectations Quotes

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I have extremely high standards.

I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

The icy precepts of respect.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

If I drop a ball, I'm going to beat myself up, or if I go out and a rep isn't perfect, I feel like I've got to do it again.

I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.

Money is a way of expressing no compromise.

It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

There's a rigid template a first lady has to fit into. You're either the Dragon Lady or the Happy Homemaker.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies - but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity - but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?

I'm not the easiest dude to work with.

I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing again - but if they don't, they're criticised for not doing the same thing again, but if they do they're just repeating themselves.