Unreasonable Expectations Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The main thing is the ‘rule of corruption’: helping the horse both to race and also to get a mouthful of hay. It’s what all civil servants are secretly thinking. Our expectations for our civil servants are far too high, far too grandiose. The pressure is more than their flesh-and-blood bodies can stand.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

He [Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu] is the worst manager that I know. I quite the job because I was simply sick of him.

I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.

The more I yielded, the more unreasonable their demands became.

Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones.

First, the media blames us stars for not doing more films. But when we are shooting, you want us to take a break. Not fair!

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

There is a yawning discrepancy of what Americans expect and for what they are willing to pay.

The Populist platform is almost too absurd to merit serious discussion.

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

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

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

There will always be voices that basically say: Unless it's the perfect solution, we want no solution. That is unrealistic.