Expectations Quotes

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

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

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

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because its not fair.

Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

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

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

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.

Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.

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.

Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.