Unachievable Expectations Quotes

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelled shorter: ‘Paralysis.’

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

No matter what I do, unless I break his records, I'm still going to be Sterling's little brother.

People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

I can't be all things to everyone.

Perfection, to me, means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

I knew no matter how good I did, no matter everything that I pushed for, there's always gonna be some type of doubt. Some people want to put limitations on what I can do.

When I was a child, I wanted to grow taller than a certain standard set by our teacher. When I expressed that desire, my teacher asked me if I thought of myself as a Chiranjeevi. Since then, I have heard a number of people liken the very name 'Chiranjeevi' to impossible achievement.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.