Expectations Quote by Ian Hamilton Finlay

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them…

— Gina McCarthy

I think that I have done work where I feel like I've challenged myself, and then what's even more confusing is I've done work…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

— Julie Taymor

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

— Toni Morrison

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that…

— PJ Harvey

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

— Steve McQueen

Don't expect others to do your work for you.

— William Safire

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to…

— Taryn Simon

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

— Isa Genzken

I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.

— Shayne Ward

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work.

— Tony McCoy

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but…

— Cindy Sherman