Expectations Quotes

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 my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less pleasant and which men don't want to do.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent - always have.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

You can't eat straight A's.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

You don't ask nobody to give what they can't give, or be what they can't be. You've learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

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.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.