Expectations Quotes
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
Thomas Kuhn
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
William Shakespeare
When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an actor who has expectations, or the reverse of it.
Vicky Kaushal
The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.
Rachael Taylor
What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Nicholas Sparks
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
John Maynard Keynes
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
Arlene Croce
I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.
Tom Hardy
If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.
Mesut Ozil
I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.
David Oakes
You cannot fight the press, you cannot fight the media. They are the ones that will tell people what is going on, so I cannot fight the media. They said I’m crazy, I use cocaine. Well, I still use cocaine. I dey blow my nose, I dey smoke my Igbo. As I speak to you, I have cocaine in my pocket and in my house. I still dey use am. I can’t stop. How will you play music with a ‘normal eye’? You can’t be a good musician playing without getting high. Pastors dem dey high too. The truth is that you can’t be on the human level and give the message. The humans are looking up to you, so you must be superhuman to live up to their expectations.
Majek Fashek
We believe the lower top-line growth in Q4' 00 versus expectations and uncertainty over Amazon's top-line growth going forward will overshadow the operational achievements that we felt were necessary to achieve operating profitability by Q4 ' 01 and subsequently could have driven stock price appreciation.
Anthony Noto