Expectations Quotes

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

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.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.