Expectations Quotes

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

Obviously, David [Shore] probably has pressure because House was such an amazing show. But I try not to go into these jobs, thinking that I have to live up to people's expectations.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

I don't really care too much about Valentine's Day... I've never had a valentine or anything. I've always just spent it with my friends, so I don't really have much expectation for Valentine's Day.

People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.

I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.

A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.

Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

I have no expectations. None at all.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.

If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.