Expectations Quotes

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up.

When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

Any expectation is what pain is.

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Good people always rise to your level of expectation.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

I don't like to generate too many expectations.

Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.