Expectations Quotes
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False expectations take away joy.
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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.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
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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.
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When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
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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.
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I came in prepared for the rest of the year to kind of not have expectations of the outcome of the games -- just to go with what happened. The game itself, especially the second half, was terrific.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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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.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.
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In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
