I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.
I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
One thing that has irritated me in the sport of boxing since I stopped is I'm really surprised that no one has come along to excite me like me.
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.
I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.
That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.
I've always said that when people start saying, 'Oh my God, why doesn't this woman put down her bagpipes?' then I will. I just don't ever want to become like Cliff Richard.
I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.
I'm always confident, always expect high expectations for myself.
The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Personally, I take it really seriously and it bothers me when I don't play well.
I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had.
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
