Expectations Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

We cannot all be masters.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

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.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

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.

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.