Expectations Quotes
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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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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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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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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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.
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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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When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.
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I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
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I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.
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I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.
