do whatever it was they expected her to do because they were always expecting her to do something more or be something more until it didn’t feel like there was enough of her left to go around.

He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.

He is demanding of his colleagues, but he is demanding of himself because he wants to change things for the better.

They want to see someone forced into action and positively overcoming obstacles.

He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want — not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

To those who are given much, much is expected.

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

He(Rusesabagina) really wanted to be the star.

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

[He] felt a controlled importance, a fine passionate honing of his attention and intellect that made him impatient with his whole previous life. (p208)