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Quotes About Demanding

A day on a film set is maddening.
~ Maggie Siff
But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
~ Steve Spurrier
There's a reason why MMA is only three five-minute rounds, or five fives when it's a title fight. MMA is so much more demanding on the body - the wrestling, the changing levels, all that takes a lot out of you. Boxing is a breeze for us after MMA.
~ Artem Lobov
'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.
~ Scott Bakula
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.
~ Bobby Knight
You can ask a lot of the people around me - I'm very demanding. I expect them to be as intense about my tennis on a daily basis as I am.
~ Milos Raonic
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
~ Jason Statham
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
~ Ian Anderson
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
~ Alan Ayckbourn
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
~ Christopher Hitchens
How's the family, Jack?" "Exceptional. Mel's exceptionally gorgeous and demanding, Emma's exceptionally beautiful and David is an exceptionally bad terrible two. We may not survive him." "Oh,
~ Robyn Carr
Yes, there what we would consider 'emergent circumstances.
~ Lisa Scottoline
I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple: "The magic that is always demanding gifts is no true magic," said she.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Things are needy. They take up space. They want attention, and they will drive you mad if you let them.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Her temperament, however, was Akbar's own creation. No real woman was ever like that, so perfectly attentive, so undemanding, so endlessly available. She was an impossibility, a fantasy of perfection. They feared her, knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistible, and that was why the king loved her best.
~ Salman Rushdie
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
~ Michael Heseltine
My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.
~ Michael Jackson
Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.
~ Stefanie Powers
We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.
~ Anthony Esolen
Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.
~ Leroy Chiao
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.
~ John Boehner
I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.
~ Ricky Schroder
I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.
~ Amy Schumer
I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
~ L'Wren Scott