Expectations Quotes

The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of thinking. You have to be willing to be frustrated constantly.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.

It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.