Expectations Quotes

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who do we really care about?

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

I will try to live up to expectations of people; will present report card to people in 2019.

Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.

I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.

My expectations are incredibly high.

My expectation is that technology always changes.

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

Living up to other people's expectations is always difficult.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.

I don't like expectations.

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras in public spaces. You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.

After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked.