Quotes on Expectations

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Author: Laurie Anderson

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Author: Johnny Bench

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Author: Bill Bradley

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Author: Leo Buscaglia

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

Author: Joel Coen

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.

Author: Lloyd Cutler

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

Author: Trent Dilfer

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

Author: Atom Egoyan

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Author: Edith Evans

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

Author: Steven Gerrard

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

Author: Jane Horrocks

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Author: Hale Irwin

Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

Author: Daniel Johns

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.

Author: Denis Johnson

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

Author: David Kay

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Author: Bruce Lee

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Author: Joyce Maynard

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Author: Patricia Neal

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Author: Earl Nightingale

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

Author: Bill Paxton

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

Author: Franklin Raines

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Author: Nora Roberts

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Author: Thomas Sargent

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

Author: Pepper Schwartz

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Author: Elisabeth Shue

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

Author: Joel Siegel

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Author: Mary Slaney

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

Author: Steven Squyres

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Author: Sylvester Stallone

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

Author: John Starks

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

Author: Quentin Tarantino

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Author: Ville Valo

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Author: Conrad Veidt

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

Author: Larry Wachowski

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

Author: Christopher Walken

High expectations are the key to everything.

Author: Sam Walton

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Author: Wendy Wasserstein

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.

Author: Anne Weisberg

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.

Author: Lee Womack

Life is a puzzle, but sometimes the pieces don't fit the way we expect.

Author: Sarah Smith

The biggest emotions are in those insignificant moments when you least expect them.

Author: Angela Davis

Success is born from the passion of your purpose, not the pressure of expectations.

Author: Savannah Johnson

Do not ask the algae to carry the functionalities of a sequoia.

Author: Taylor Nguyen

Expect nothing but be prepared for everything.

Author: Rachel Diaz