In this post, you will find great Expectations Quotes from famous people, such as Gopi Sundar, Scott Haze, Prateik Babbar, Denis Waitley, Samuel Alexander. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
The future is, of course, imaginary – an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you’re constantly being shown this garbage and you can’t get there.
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He’s a cautionary tale for me. But he’s also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.
I’ve heard a lot about what second-round picks usually do – whether it’s D-League or whether it’s not playing – but for me, I have high expectations of myself regardless of where I’m picked.
At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.
Other people may not have had high expectations for me… but I had high expectations for myself.
All of everything we’ve ever done has been riding on low expectations. ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,’ a terrible idea. Doing ’21 Jump Street’ as a movie is a terrible idea. ‘The Lego Movie’ sounds like a terrible idea.
I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it’s going, so if I act against that, I’ve created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.
I don’t really focus on other people’s expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.
I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it’s not fair.
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better – otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
It’s good to have expectations, I believe. You want to come out and you want to compete. You want to do special things.
I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.
I live in New York and I love it, because it doesn’t make me feel like my life is always just about acting and that world of acting. I don’t have expectations.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, who have the same aspirations and expectations you find in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don’t be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn’t work. You’ll end up in the friend zone.
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother’s expectations of him.
My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they’re very supportive.
Deathstroke is a villain. Don’t come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He’s a bad guy, and that’s the fun of it.
What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
Let’s face it, us ’60s folks had pretty high expectations.
I feel like I’m a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There’s a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There’s a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.
There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
I kind of – I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me – I would say it’s the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that’s how I feel now. And that’s why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.
Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears.
Everybody’s got high expectations for me. I just don’t want to let anybody down.
Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama‘s inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
I admire many actors, though I don’t think there’s anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I’m really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I’m very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star‘s career combined.
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
I got my first job by exceeding expectations.
I have a lot of expectations on myself. That’s important.
The people who don’t like it tend to dislike it intensely. That’s unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.
I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time; we had so many expectations of the kind of country we would become. The vision of the government then was a wonderful vision.
If you’re fortunate, you’ll meet people over the course of your career who exceed your expectations in every way. When you work or spend time with them, you find yourself wanting to be a better person.
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.
A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses – it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn’t like that. It’s not a public thing. It’s private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.
My mother is special to me. She understands me. She has no expectations from me.
There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I’m aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.
I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.
Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone’s expectations.
If we’re stuck with having expectations, there’s a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It’s that we often create what we anticipate.
When you glorify yourself to the point where you can’t relate to a regular person, then you distort your expectations and your values.
My expectations on myself exceed any of those put on me.
I’m a big sports fan even outside of baseball. I love watching guys that are supposed to be great, and are great, live up to the expectations. So I really appreciate consistency.
I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
I would say that engineering has been a very positive experience overall, but usually coming into the situation it would be one of being underestimated. People would actually have low expectations. But I would take advantage of it quite honestly, because I would take my time to underestimate the situation.
But if I worried too much about publishers‘ expectations, I’d probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
I don’t like expectations.
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it’s great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I’m pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.
I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people’s expectations.
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that’s when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
I love running good because it meets expectations, whether it’s the fans’ or my own. And I know that they come to be entertained: they pull for a particular driver to be entertained by that driver’s success and that driver’s personality, and they relate to that individual.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service – certainly many of you – than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.
Everything this series is being built up to be – I think it’s going to live up to those expectations.
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
‘What’s It Gonna Be?’ is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where – to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters – The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid – and then flip expectations.
I think expectations are a good thing. As a player, you should embrace them and not shy away from them.
I always wanted to create my own musical world. That takes time and must be earned, and it does mean sometimes confronting the expectations of the audience.
The world is changing, and you have to keep up with the way the world is changing as well as your own expectations that you set for yourself or that your family might set you.
I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.
Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major tournament.
I think sometimes it’s hard, parent’s expectations, wanting to be seen by the people in your family and feeling that you can’t do that, you can’t get them to see you the way that you want to be seen, and come to an understanding or find a way to talk that doesn’t revert to bad habits.
I’m always my toughest critic. I’m setting the expectations for myself, and that’s enough pressure. I don’t need to worry about the haters or the Twitter trolls or what everybody else thinks.
The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it’s different.
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell‘s music, I look at it and say to myself, ‘I’m going to quit – why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?’
Living up to people’s expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations.
Every individual’s listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions. That is why one person’s musical taste is another person’s hideous noise.
Being a mother is complicated because it’s not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it’s those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
Every single thing you do, you don’t really have expectations.
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents’ expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.
We are grateful, as artists, as individuals, that people have such big expectations of us, and we are ready to take on the burden that comes with the expectations.
Since the Rio Olympics, the expectations are always high, and the responsibilities are also high. I am used to it now. You have to keep going and keep working hard.
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you’re being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it’s going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
I’m a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will – how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.
The reality of the writer’s world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience’s expectations.
There’s obstacles, there’s challenges, there’s things that come in the way. So building relationships and building some of the expectations on the front end helps you deal with them so it doesn’t just all come caving in.
America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.
People lead complicated lives and aren’t hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.
We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
It’s pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.
When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, ‘How does this relate to them?’ I’d be paralyzed.
I just create. I don’t have expectations. I just make music.
I’d rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it’s fun and there’s no expectations, it’s encouragement to be different, do something new.
We, as a company, take the most risks in pushing the boundaries on consumer expectations.
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
I don’t play an instrument – I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. ‘We Are Young’ turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren’t met.
We want to change the way people think about England teams. At the men’s tournaments, we haven‘t exceeded expectations, and it’s the same with the women’s. If we can change that, it could have a knock-on effect, even for the men’s team.
I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
As for ‘Great Expectations’, it is up there for me with the world’s greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.
We’re all victims of our own expectations.
If you’re joining the Knicks, there’s expectations that follow that; there’s a lot that comes with it.
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
I try not to focus too much on the expectations there are of me.
The biggest expectations we’ll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.
I’m not perfect, I just do what I think is right. So if I can’t fulfil people’s expectations, I’m sorry, but it’s not my fault.
People with Down syndrome can do anything. They just do it at their own pace. Give them a chance, and you will be rewarded beyond your greatest expectations.
I’ve already exceeded my expectations for myself. I’m one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be… I never thought the things I’ve experienced in my life, I didn’t think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.
A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want to see the characters again, or you want to see certain dynamics between the characters or certain kinds of storylines. And you kind of figure out how to best fit what you want to say into that format.
I’ve always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you’re there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.
I think, along with the great joy and excitement of having a child, it seems to be that the common themes are also a lot of doubt and fear and uncertainty about being a parent – and about how you might not live up to those expectations.
I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people’s expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple’s announcement.
When expectations are really high, you’re doomed.
I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also confronted with legitimate expectations from the people who want us to respond far more thoroughly to their basic pleas than we would have done in a much more contained form of conflict.
I’m a junkie for exhaustion, and I’m a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.
My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.
If you have expectations as a club, then coping with criticism is part of your job.
You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it’s going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations… They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ‘operators’ or ‘programmers.’
I’ve always got such high expectations for myself. I’m aware of them, but I can’t relax them.
The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.
The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.
Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It’s just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety – expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.
I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I don’t have any horror stories about glass ceilings and expectations and tense studio meetings.
People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.
I have always been able to rise above the expectations.
Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I’m right on track.
The hard thing about ‘The Saint‘ was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying – she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn’t have high expectations for that film.
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.
Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.
Benitez is a coach with high expectations of his players, he demands a lot and I like that. He knows how to communicate with his players and he is intelligent.
Obviously, when you have a quarterback of the caliber of Aaron Rodgers, we’re going to have high expectations.
Having no expectations is a really good thing.
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer’s expectations doesn’t seem to pay off. This ‘delight the customer’ stuff isn’t rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
My expectations have always been to be one of the top players in the world, and that matches well with Paylocity’s mission. They are changing things in their industry just like I want to make a mark on professional golf.
My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn’t. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it’s important not to give them false expectations.
My worst expectations never happened.
My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.
So much is predicated on wins and losses to enjoy life. Every single person loses every week, so it is unrealistic to say you shouldn’t enjoy the process. They are unrealistic expectations.
It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, ‘Oh, the last one was the best one.’ It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.
Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and also present it in such a way that it is liked by all the audience.
I view edge providers as a significant bright spot in our struggling economy. They are tirelessly innovating, growing, and meeting – often exceeding – consumer expectations.
When you write your first book, you’re writing in a vacuum; it doesn’t matter how much time it takes. And then with the second book, you’re on contract, and you have deadlines, and it’s a little bit tougher. And also the expectations. You don’t want to let your characters down.
People should know that I am Dybala, and I want to continue to be so. I understand the comparisons and expectations on me from the Argentines, but I don’t want to be the new Messi or the Messi of the future.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also – and this is the awesome part – now there are fans, too!
If you’re not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don’t have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
I’m not setting too many expectations for myself. I’m just trying to create opportunities for something interesting.
I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone’s expectations.
I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.
I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn’t have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.
I think anytime you have expectations for your team and for yourself and you have goals that you want to accomplish you can’t overlook the small stuff and the baby steps.
There are different games for different people and different expectations. Sometimes you want a great story, and sometimes you don’t. I don’t believe we should have stories in every single game. Sometimes it doesn’t matter.
I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
It’s so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender, class, and race.
Though ‘Child’s Play’ is ultimately more concerned with subverting storytelling expectations and satirizing the expected trajectory of traditional mystery, Posadas does embed some insights about the writer’s responsibility to the reader.
At the end of the day, nobody has higher expectations for me than myself. I don’t really try to prove anyone wrong anymore as much as I try to prove myself right.
You’re under pressure when you produce facts. You’re working with facts in journalism, but you’re under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
I think expectations of ‘Doctor Who‘ should always be high, because it’s a show that must always progress and get better and better.
When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence.
People have expectations of me but I’m not a magician.
I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.
I’m so glad I got an opportunity to meet Shawn Michaels, because he didn’t let any of my expectations down. He’s the coolest guy ever.
If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.
Sometimes I think about, ‘What if I’m not the person everyone idealizes me to be? Maybe I’m just a regular old Joe. What if I can’t live up to all these expectations? Maybe I’m just not who they think I am or who they want me to be.
I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he’s got to improve immediately.
Just getting to the NFC Championship isn’t good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
My expectations are incredibly high.
I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know – what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
Building up expectations, creating unrealistic time frames, feeling like our end goal is the end all, be all can all lead to frustration or anxiety. We end up feeling as though we have to power through what we want rather than enjoy the process and just let the result come as it may.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It’s often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I’d always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
I’m always confident, always expect high expectations for myself.
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
I think it’s part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that’s where the good humor is, if there’s a surprise and there’s something unexpected. Something that’s not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
At a certain point, a critical mass of people either have used the Internet or have expectations. Anything less than the free flow of information will be seen as having something taken away. We’ve seen time and again – in Egypt and Iran, for example – that creates a backlash.
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations… so I’m just trying to meet those. I’m not going to distract myself with other people’s expectations.
I don’t have any expectations of anything.
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest.
I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn’t fit our expectations.
Though, since the first record, I’ve dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
My films and roles have given me a special place in the hearts of people. I am aware that it is a huge responsibility and I am doing my best to live up to those expectations.
When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I’m always surprised. I don’t know if it’s my low expectations for white people or what.
Expectations don’t scare me because I have worked towards them. I want people to expect better things from me with every film. I never want to be in a position where they don’t expect anything from me. I want to be in a position where if they are expecting sun from me, at least I will be able to reach the moon.
Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
I love the idea of being the underdog, coming in with a take on this underdog character and completely blow people’s expectations away. Like, ‘Oh, you thought he was going to be a wimpy character? No no no.’
With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I’m a perfectionist – I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it’s most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.
What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
When I put out a record or single I don’t allow myself to set up expectations like, ‘This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.’
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
‘Great Expectations’ is one of the greatest stories.
It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
There are people who have really high expectations for what we’re doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.
We live in a world that builds people’s expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.
The only way I’m going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don’t get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that’s free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don’t want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations.
To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don’t happen. Someone’s in a movie; someone’s not in a movie. I’ve learned not to build my expectations.
‘Great Expectations’ has become one of my favorite books.
Season 1 of CTV’s ‘The Launch’ exceeded our wildest expectations!
Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
I don’t stay in one discipline because it’s more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was ‘Just Kids,’ for which I had absolutely no expectations.
I had no expectations of white people at all.
I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.
You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it’s not something I pay attention to.
Of course there’s going to be expectations when you’re playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.
Expectations are an evil thing.
I support safeguarding users‘ personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers‘ privacy.
As an urban school superintendent, I learned that hiring, training, and investing in professionals to support our children’s social and emotional development, meeting academic expectations for students with special needs, and finding more minutes of instruction in the week, not fewer, mattered.
When I write books, I’ve learned not to have any expectations that I’m going to change the world.
We’re starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we’re allowed to.
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment – this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.
Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way – they don’t want to conform to society’s expectations.
I am not worried about people’s expectations. I just want to get the film right.
I’ve always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me; the party was open-armed, but they never thought I’d win. I delivered in a really big way; I exceeded their expectations and think I’m still highly regarded by the GOP in New Mexico.
I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film – then you can layer in thematics.
I’m always making movies for my audiences, but I’m not trying to meet their expectations.
We want to play a great a role as possible in making sure this country lives up to the expectations.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I think there are things that you look for when you’re younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That’s not going to happen, and it’s really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you’re at ease with your life and don’t have any unrealistic expectations.
People keep asking me if I feel pressure. But I don’t feel pressure. I realize there’s a lot on my plate, a lot of expectations for me to come in and win and do certain things. But I’m just playing the way I always have.
All the time, there was the weight of my community’s expectations on my shoulders.
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
It was a big step for me to go to Bayern Munich. Of course, the expectations were different than at Dortmund, but that’s what I wanted.
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
I love doing action. Since I’m not 21, there’s some, ‘Let me get to the gym so I can do it.’ But I love to defy expectations.
My father is definitely not the kind of guy who’d place his children in key roles within his organization if he didn’t think we could surpass the expectations he had for us.
The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.
Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people’s expectations of me as an actress.
When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.
Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.
I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what’s her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.
‘Wild at Heart’ created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher‘s part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable.
We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don’t believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world.
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn’t know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.
I think, with every kid I coach, I’m trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.
By not having to live up to people’s expectations, I was somehow free.
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don’t care about soccer and this and that. But the way people cared was beyond my wildest expectations. You can’t manufacture that.
I know the expectations are higher on me now because I’ve played more matches and done well. But I need to keep improving to make the supporters happy. I know I can improve.
I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
If I follow the media and everyone that tries to set expectations for me because I’m a high draft pick, if I follow that, I will never become a great player.
I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent – always have.
In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people’s journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.
Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations.
A voice is very intimate. It’s something of your own. So there’s always this fear, because you feel naked. There’s a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don’t want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
I originally invested in Dropcam because I foresaw what the company and their products could do for consumers and the industry. I’ve been deeply impressed with what they’ve done in such little time, and I’m confident that they’ll continue to exceed my expectations.
I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.
The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.
Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you’re immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.
I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.
Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.
There’s always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry’s Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn’t always work out.
I’ve exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.
I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don’t meet the population‘s needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.
Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
‘Great Expectations’ was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
‘That’s What She Said’ is not Hollywood’s standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up ‘girl’ women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
I had a slow start at West Ham, that’s right. I came here and expectations were high because the fans were not quite happy with it. But as football players we have to deal with the pressure.
Everybody comes in with a certain goal. Some are performance, some are aesthetic. Even athletes have aesthetic goals, but first and foremost, they have performance goals, and those need to be addressed. They have weaknesses that need to be shored up. You have to manage expectations sometimes.
Once you feel like you’re being dictated by other people’s expectations, it usually backfires.
A simple lifestyle can make you happy and high expectations can disappoint a lot.
Doing a film with somebody who’s from a different country or culture than you is very fulfilling because they bring with them different insights, experiences, cultural norms, and expectations. All of those things can sort of broaden your own understanding of things or provide a different perspective.
In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn’t pressurise me because I’m pretty confident about my musicality and my talent.
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
I feel Arjun is one of the central characters of ‘Mahabharata’ and people have lots of expectations from me when I started working on the show.
People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don’t like to be classified.
Working with higher education institutions can also help to aid cybersecurity professionals who are already in the workforce. Programs like these can help to move the industry forward by building rigorous and universally accepted certifications and changing expectations of what a security expert can and should be.
In the telecommunications, consumer products, and railway businesses, there are very real consequences if you don’t meet the consumer’s needs and desires. There are also substantive rewards for doing so, and especially for exceeding customer expectations.
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren’t just covering a story, they’re a part of it – influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates – and despite what they tell themselves, it’s impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively.
I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.
Marcus Rashford has done really well. He had a great first season, and then people had really high expectations, but he showed his quality on the pitch in the second season.
Whether it’s a guy getting a big contract, getting a franchise deal, that comes with expectations.
When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.
I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.
The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.
I set really high expectations.
Well, for us, it’s always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it’s always a big plus no matter what happens.
I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.
In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that’s something I always had a hard time with.
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you’re young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you’re gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.
When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.
I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please – and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.
I think Ronda Rousey is fantastic. She’s a fantastic addition to the entire crew of WWE. I think she has kind of blown away people’s expectations.
I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won’t go to plan. I think that’s the only thing that’s definite.
The biggest problems with movies are expectations.
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.
Just because an employee does things differently doesn’t mean he or she won’t do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn’t be an issue.
I don’t like labels. I don’t understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
One of the things I’ve tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I’m able to broaden people’s expectations of what I’m allowed to do.
It is the people of Kerala and their expectations that have made me what I am today.
There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don’t want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations.
Nobody’s expectations are going to be more than mine.
I am disappointed at not being able to live up to the expectations of my supporters, but every cricketer goes through such a time.
I identified with Pip from ‘Great Expectations,’ especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing – be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app – can create all sorts of complications when things don’t go as planned.
I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn’t be manipulated by the media’s expectations of our bodies. I’d recommend every woman to read ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves‘ – it’s about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
I’m not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you’re setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you’re constantly surprised. You never know what’s going to happen, and it’s certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.
I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it’s OK if you don’t live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.
I feel like if you don’t put too much expectations and too much high hopes into things, everything will fall into place.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn’t even expect to get a record deal.
Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it’s hard to fulfil their expectations.
Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president’s first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
I think where genre is limiting is that in the marketplace, you have to put things in a box to create expectations to make a profit, and that’s where you run into trouble.
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.
You work hard and you have expectations. So I’m living my expectations right now.
Our goal in Washington must not be to impose but to expect and assist: Expect the most of educators and students and assist them as they work together to meet those expectations. Rather than tightening our grip, we should set clear, ambitious goals and support innovative local efforts to achieve them.
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet’s availability by taxing access to it.
When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.
I don’t have to do anything for anyone else’s benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you’re in fact probably saying is you’re exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.
I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.
We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can’t work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can’t really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people’s expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That’s how your career takes off – it’s just consistency and time.
One of the things that’s influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
The worst kind of businesses are ones where there are no expectations set out for employees.
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
My story is a little unorthodox. At first, I just wanted to book a commercial. I didn’t have any expectations, and I wanted to try something new.
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It’s giving people new expectations. It’s allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you’ll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
I live for the high expectations.
I don’t have anything to prove anymore. I don’t have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I’m in a position of freedom. I don’t need anyone’s approval.
I have very high expectations of myself. I’m a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.
I’m pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
The expectations and pressure doesn’t mean you change. That’s something that’s always been instilled in me, and doesn’t matter what the situation or what the game means, I’m always going to approach the game the same way.
I’ve learned to not have expectations. If you don’t expect things from anyone, you can’t get let down.
I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
False expectations take away joy.
To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients‘ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
As women, we’re busy. We’re under stress and under pressure, and the expectations are so high for us, so the first thing to go is self-care.
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
One of the things you have to deal with is the pressure of expectations. It takes time for people to believe in yourself; to believe you can finish the innings. You try and do it consistently and that’s what you aim to do as a batsman.
My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation.
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they’re held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don’t expect them to learn, if you don’t expect them to succeed – then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I went into the ‘Idol’ audition with no expectations; that’s just the kind of person I am. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third – I started to realize, ‘Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.’
At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That’s why you want to play here or coach here.
‘Moonlight‘ undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance.
I’m not interested in meeting people’s expectations, and I’m not interested in pleasing people.
There’s a difference between expectations and aspirations.
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn’t unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.
I think that we could be more careful about what we’re saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It’s unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.
People have certain expectations from me, and I want to do different characters.
Taking full advantage of all that college offers can be tough for teens facing a major life transition under pressure to perform. Perhaps we should all lower our expectations and let kids find their way.
I think I don’t really have any expectations; I don’t look at the season as a whole – I look at it race by race.
I just got a lot of expectations and pressure on me, but it is what it is. I’ve got the best job in the world, I work two or three hours a day and get paid handsomely for it.
I have high expectations from Babar Azam and Imam-ul Haq.
I am satisfied with my achievements in terms of both development and welfare. I have not only lived up to most of the expectations of people, but also surpassed some of their expectations.
I’m already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.
We’ve never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you’re trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.
Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.
I have high expectations for myself – as an athlete, as a man, as an individual – and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.
I don’t have high expectations anymore. Maybe they’ve just been beaten out of me.
People who come to see me have expectations. If I don’t live up to those expectations, I’d be a failure.
We need better measures of people’s expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people… We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being.
Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I’ve been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.
I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.
John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.
It’s hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we’re writing for the most important people: the fans.
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man’s expectations.
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.
Simply put, we haven’t lived up to your expectations… That’s going to change.
I am happy with what comes, I don’t have expectations of any stature.
Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
I didn’t have huge expectations for ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ My previous album, ‘Frampton,’ had sold about 300,000 copies – a decent amount but not mind-blowing. There was talk at the label that maybe the live record could go gold. I was hoping we could do it, but I wasn’t sure.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.
My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I’m doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations – only a journey which we all share together.
If we are going to compete in this world we’re in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families’ hearts are going to be broken that their kids won’t be able to get a job in the 21st Century.
It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.
As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.’s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we’re expected to march in a straight line, and when we don’t, all hell breaks loose.
I didn’t have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I’ve been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It’s something of your own. So there’s always this fear, because you feel naked. There’s a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
When you go into to vacationing with kids, what people don’t get is that there is a portion of it that’s going to be unpleasant because you’re traveling with children. When people have these expectations that it’s going to be perfect or amazing, that has never been my experience.
I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
I think there’s a sort of satisfaction in defying people’s expectations.
Food lovers tend to make life difficult for themselves on their travels. It’s like travelling first class, if your expectations are so high, you’re bound to be disappointed.
Compared to Alia, it’s little more difficult for Shaheen, as she has a famous father and a famous sibling, too. So, I always tell my daughters to not to pay much heed to these expectations and give more importance to their dreams. They should keep working hard and find their own talent.
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
Listen, I’ve been pretty fortunate. And if I’ve been underrated, it’s actually been something I’ve been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don’t mind.
In life and in movies, it’s a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
People judge us looking from the outside. They don’t really know what is going on in my life. There are hundreds of perspectives out there. I cannot live up to all the expectations.
I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there’s always going to be expectations.
I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.
The word that I constantly hear out of women is ‘fear.’ It’s almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren’t good enough because we have such high expectations.
There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.
If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that’s one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.
The great thing about writing ‘Deadpool’ is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.
I’ve never been short of putting high expectations on myself; I’ve never been short of saying I want to win a Stanley Cup.
We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they’re only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I’m making an outlandish statement.
There’s a victory in letting go of your expectations.
I’m not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that’s great, it also imposes certain pressures.
There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.
Oh, it is a boon to have a lineage like mine. Of course there’s additional responsibility, and I have to live up to expectations all the time, but that’s fine with me.
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
We have to learn how to manage expectations.
We’re all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.
I’m as strict as my parents – I have high expectations, too. I’d never ask the kids to do something outside their capabilities, but I’ll encourage them not to be lazy and to try hard.
It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
It’s always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
I’m not afraid of expectations.
I think Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays like New Year‘s where people develop such high expectations that even if it’s a decent day, it doesn’t live up, and it’s disappointing.
A brand should live up to the expectations of people; it should deliver what it promises.
I try not to think about anyone’s expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought in my mind growing up, but my mom felt it was important for me to be open to business opportunities and expand my horizons.
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A’s from the time I was in kindergarten.
Indeed, it is a common goal to create a stronger United Nations able to meet the multitude of expectations placed upon it. To that end, I will facilitate a constructive, informed, and open interaction among Member States and with the Secretary-General.
When you lose for the All Blacks it’s not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards and we know if we’ve let ourselves or let the jersey down.
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you’re stupid, they have low expectations for you.
I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.
It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
Pressure is there with any release of mine. It’s more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
The challenge we face as a government is meeting expectations – not specific expectations, but the larger expectations: things that need to be changed and that Narendra Modi will do it as though he has a magic wand.
I always have high expectations for me.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Is the ‘black designer’ label there to warn everyone not to have the same level of expectations for me, or is it some type of prize? I just want to work in an even playing field where I can get press for my work and not just my race and my personal views on it.
Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
No, I don’t make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people’s expectations – I only do what I find natural.
I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.
