Expectations Quotes

I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.

The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.

I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

A lot of people have high expectations. I'm just going to do the best I can.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way. Low expectations reap great rewards.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

High expectations don't bother me at all.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

Entering into the flow of abundance begins when exceeding expectations becomes a way of life.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

Things never come when they are expected.

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.

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'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult away from Chili's or T.G.I. Friday's is definitely a win for the good guys.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.

There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.

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.