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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Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
Sebastian Horsley
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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.
Edgar Schein
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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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You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.
Ezekiel Elliott
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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.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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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.
Terry Gross
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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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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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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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She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself
Miriam Toews
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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.
Behdad Sami
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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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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
Stephen Sondheim
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Patience is the absence of expectation.
Shinichi Suzuki
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
Seth Godin
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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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When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.
Tommy Hilfiger
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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