Expectations Quotes
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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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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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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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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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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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.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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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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If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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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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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
