Expectations Quotes
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I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
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I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next.
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The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
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Our wants and needs distort to an unknown degree what we perceive. We block out a great deal of information that is potentially available if it does not fit our needs, expectations, preconceptions, and prejudgments.
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She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself
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Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.
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You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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You can plan all you want, but at the end of the day, you have what you have. Don’t set your expectations too high.
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Really, our expectations will not change. I say it every year. We respect Texas. We've been on both sides of it. We've been picked behind them before, and we've been picked ahead of them before. We'll get off the bus when it's time to play.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.
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Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
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Patience is the absence of expectation.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.
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When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.
