Expectations Quotes
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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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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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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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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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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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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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'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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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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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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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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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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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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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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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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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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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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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
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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.
