Top 199 Demanding Quotes

I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

Times get tough sometimes, you lose cool. At the end of the day it is one of the most demanding and grueling sports.

My father was a difficult and demanding man.

I’m very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I’m not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don’t party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I’m the most boring person at a party.

Demanding that all of us presume every defendant innocent outside of a courtroom is to demand that we stop evaluating facts, thereby suffocating independent thought and opinion. There is nothing ‘reasonable’ about that.

I think I’m fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you’re appointed to a job you have to do the job.

I’m demanding to be prosecuted. I’m begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

I was going to school nights and it was so demanding of your time that social activities suffered.

It’s technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It’s an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these ‘Transformers’ monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.

When we ask for love, we don’t ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love.

It was my husband who had to open all the baby shower gifts which were haunting me in their candy-colored gift wrap – thank you notes demanding to be written.

In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different – more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, ‘I’m no brain surgeon,’ for a reason.

And when we go from braking to accelerating to cornering, the G-forces we pull are really demanding on our bodies. We definitely have to be in top shape.

On the campaign, I’ve had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women, like demanding equal pay for equal work, pushing to raise our minimum wage, and promoting the idea of paid family leave.

I’ve been doing a lot of work with my brilliant trainer Pat Manocchia, who has a gym called La Palestra. He’s trained me for every big show I’ve done, every demanding 8-show week role that requires stamina, like ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Gypsy.’

The mountains are a demanding, cold place, and they don’t allow for mistakes.

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn’t fair.

My advice to anyone with writerly ambitions and a demanding day job is to set aside a little piece of time, even an hour a week if that’s all you can manage, and make it yours. This is your writing hour. Even if you use it up by staring at a blank screen and daydreaming, so what?

Running a company is pretty demanding.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there’s a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.

Touring the world was almost like a side project that got out of control. It’s like two incredibly demanding full-time jobs that I’m trying to do at once.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker’s attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Porto improve every single player because this is a very demanding club.

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn’t have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.

Playing against Messi, as I’ve said before, is as tough a test of your concentration as any in football. At any moment, he can take the mickey out of you. Physically, it is demanding, but mentally even more so. You cannot switch off.

Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Unlike other enduring characters such as ‘Sherlock Holmes’ or ‘Tarzan,’ being the ‘Doctor’ allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself.

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I’m thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

No one has the right to destroy another person’s belief by demanding empirical evidence.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don’t think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It’s a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.

I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don’t have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you.

If, by demanding revolutionary change, I run the risk of accomplishing nothing on behalf of the public, then I’m not sure that’s a responsible course of action.

When I met Mourinho, I was still very young, but mentally and tactically, he worked on me. He was really demanding: you could not take a step below your level.

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

I think I’m more demanding than any wife.

Until I got older, I never dreamed of what a demanding responsibility it is to keep food in the pantry, to keep clothing neat and presentable, to buy all that is needed to keep a home running.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as ‘Good Morning America,’ so this is – you know, it’s almost like I’m less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I’m just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

When I was married to an abuser, he’d tell me he wouldn’t have to get so angry if only I’d be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.

When you see players coming into the new season with injuries and already carrying strapping on various parts of their bodies in January, then it only serves to highlight how hard the sport is and how demanding the schedule can be. There really isn’t an off-season and that’s the nature of the beast.

It’s pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it’s also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, ‘Where are the jobs?’ And the reason we don’t have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

People are always asking me baking questions – from strangers DMing me on Instagram, to friends I don’t otherwise talk to anymore texting me, to my own mother and sister calling me on the phone demanding answers.

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

The Championship is a ferocious league, physically demanding, and it simply does not allow players the luxury of cruising through.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it’s only a movie.

From the reader’s view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

I quit south Indian films because I was bored. The fans in south India were also quite demanding.