Unattainable Standards Quotes

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'

I'm very aware that you lead a very peculiar existence as a professional footballer, being flown everywhere first-class and never having to queue up for anything. Of course, that's attractive, but if you're not careful, you end up living in a world where nothing is really real.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.