Norton Juster Quotes

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

Norton Juster

• Expectations

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Better
  • Expectations
  • Flow

• I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • High
  • Want
  • Myself

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • Customer

• When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Me
  • Expectations

• I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Expectations

• Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Quality
  • Expectations

• I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Create
  • Expectations

• We tend to live up to our expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Up
  • Live
  • Expectations

• Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Up
  • Expectations

• I have no expectations. None at all.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Expectations

• Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Peace

• You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Expectations
  • Higher

• Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential

  

  K. K. Barrett
  • True
  • Realizing
  • Expectations

• Of course, I am the first democratically elected woman president in Africa, and that raises a lot of expectations. Because I represent the aspirations of women all over Africa, I must succeed for them. I must keep the door open for women's participation in politics at the highest level. That is both humbling and exciting.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Women
  • Door
  • President

• Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Expectations

• We played about as well as we played all season. They had back-to-back games like we did, but you could see their legs getting tired. I had a suspicion that we could win this game tonight, but they played above my expectations.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Tired
  • Games

• Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • Reality
  • Curiosity

• Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • High

• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Peace

• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Up
  • Money
  • End

• Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Expectations