Expectations Quotes
I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
I have really tried my best to ignore any double standard. I can't control the expectations of other people. I can control my attitude and my energy, and that's always been very positive.
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.
That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.
The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.
There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.
Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.
Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded my expectations. It was just above and beyond.
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.
I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.
The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.