Unrealistic Demands Quotes

I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.

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

I know I have a lot of fans, and it's a big mistake try to please everybody.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

People who are given a lot, a lot is expected out of them. I realize that, but I also realize expectations are unrealistic sometimes.

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

I'm not going to be everything to everyone.

The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.

I can't be all things to everyone.

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

Asking someone to be with us turns out to be an impossibly demanding and therefore pretty mean thing to suggest to anyone we would really want the best for.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.