Sara Zarr Quotes

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

I'm my hardest critic because I know what I can do and I strive to be as perfect as I can be even though I know it's not possible.

I'm very hard on myself everyday, you can ask my coaches, and after a good training session, I'm not happy because I know I can do better or change something to do better, you know?

I've always put pressure on myself to perform well.

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

I am notoriously hard on myself in terms of working on new material and while I am critical of my performance on the Led Zeppelin material, I am way more critical of my own stuff. I'm pretty hard on myself.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

I'll always be tough on myself.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.