Expectations Quotes

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

It seems to me that at least as far as the financial markets are concerned, there is increasing evidence against rational expectations, even at the macro level.

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.

While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.

I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

expectation isn't the same as desire

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.