Unachievable Expectations Quotes

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelled shorter: ‘Paralysis.’

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!

No matter what I do, unless I break his records, I'm still going to be Sterling's little brother.

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

I can't be all things to everyone.

Perfection, to me, means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

I knew no matter how good I did, no matter everything that I pushed for, there's always gonna be some type of doubt. Some people want to put limitations on what I can do.

When I was a child, I wanted to grow taller than a certain standard set by our teacher. When I expressed that desire, my teacher asked me if I thought of myself as a Chiranjeevi. Since then, I have heard a number of people liken the very name 'Chiranjeevi' to impossible achievement.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.