Quotes on Expectation

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Author: Atom Egoyan

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Author: Cathy Freeman

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

Author: Robert Fripp

A desert is a place without expectation.

Author: Nadine Gordimer

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

Author: Norton Juster

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

Author: David Knopfler

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Author: Jonathan Lethem

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

Author: Kevin Rollins

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

Author: William Scott

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Author: William Shakespeare

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Author: Robert South

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

Author: Donna Tartt

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Author: Brian Tracy

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Author: Voltaire

The greatest successes often come from where you least expect them.

Author: Gabriella Martinez

Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.

Author: Angela Merkel

Do everything with a good heart and expect nothing in return, and you will never be disappointed.

Author: Jenna Wyatt

Quotes on Expectation

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The greatest successes often come from where you least expect them.

Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.

Do everything with a good heart and expect nothing in return, and you will never be disappointed.