Expectations Quotes

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

For me, there's a lot of expectations and you want to be able to live up to them.

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

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 conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

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.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

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'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

One thing I always remember: Frustration is built by unmet expectations.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

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 travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.