I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.
So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
I don't like expectations.
The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.
I want to complete every ball. It's impossible, but that is what I want to do. And that is why I work hard at it.
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.
My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.
We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'
A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.
Setting points targets is sometimes the worst thing you can do - it puts pressure on.
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.
It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.
In my job, the not working is real and the actual work is just fantasy.
Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.
