Expectations Quotes
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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.
Bob Stoops
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Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Wentworth Miller
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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.
Norton Juster
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We had expectations of making it farther than people thought we ever could have made it. We even said we could win the whole thing -- that's how good we were playing. It just wasn't in the cards.
Bobby Frasor
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Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
Norm MacDonald
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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.
Eva Mendes
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
John Maynard Keynes
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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.
Shonda Rhimes
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The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation.
Esther Hicks
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
Cathy Guisewite
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Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.
Evan Esar
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She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself
Miriam Toews
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Patience is the absence of expectation.
Shinichi Suzuki
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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.
Susanna Phillips
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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.
Terence McKenna
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
Stephen Sondheim
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There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.
Teju Cole
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
Seth Godin
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When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.
Tommy Hilfiger