Quotes about expectations
expectations people trying
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby. Bill Bruford
expectations speech
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. Bill Bradley
expectations plans candidates
I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again. Al Gore
expectations found true-faith
True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation. C. S. Lewis
expectations mind taught
Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you. Catherine Ponder
expectations progress impossible
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. Alan Dundes
expectations outcomes determine
Expectations determine outcome, always! Deepak Chopra
expectations great-expectations kind
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty. David Nicholls
expectations clients different
All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different. Bruce Bennett
expectations balance pajamas
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. Barbara Kingsolver
expectations events essentials
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. Barbara Sher
expectations thankfulness each-day
Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day). Dennis Prager
expectations ruins chance
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
expectations pressure facts
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. Denis Johnson
expectations trying legs
With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for. Aaron Ashmore
expectations expected
Things never come when they are expected. Agatha Christie
expectations temperament dilettantes
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. Aleksandar Hemon
expectations trying behavior
If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court. Daphne Oz
expectations people buying
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards. Colin Meloy
expectations woven fabric
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high. David Whyte
expectations pressure use
I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me. Daunte Culpepper
expectations good-place
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. Danny Boyle
expectations musical hearing
I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical. Colin Firth
expectations infidelity important
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. Dan Savage
expectations illusion socialism
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are. Ludwig von Mises
expectations waiting resentment
Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. Anne Lamott
expectations sometimes floats
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
expectations ponds attention
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
expectations hollywood enough
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough. Conrad Veidt
expectations people age
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young. Dustin Clare
expectations forever talent
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. David Foster Wallace
expectations drs scared
The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem. Curtis Jackson
expectations better-days
I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such. Daniel Woodrell