Expectations Quotes

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

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

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

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

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

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

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

High expectations are the key to everything.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

I don't have any expectations.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

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.