“There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.”
― Adam Silvera
“There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don’t want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations.”
― Adi Godrej
“A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.”
― Adi Godrej
“We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.”
― Adlai Stevenson II
“I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.”
― Al Gore
“I don’t want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it’s just that if we’re to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.”
― Alain de Botton
“I think the danger with using the term ‘trilogy’ is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader’s mind.”
― Alastair Reynolds
“I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing – I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I’m able to accomplish.”
― Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.”
― Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.”
― Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“There’s a difference between expectations and aspirations.”
― Alex Kapranos
“I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety – expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.”
― Alex Smith
“Every single thing you do, you don’t really have expectations.”
― Alexandra Daddario
“Having no expectations is a really good thing.”
― Alycia Debnam-Carey
“At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.”
― Amar Bose
“If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.”
― Amity Shlaes
“My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A’s from the time I was in kindergarten.”
― Amy Tan
“It’s something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.”
― Angelique Kerber
“It’s so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.”
― Ann Brashares
“I think, all my life, I’ve grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.”
― Anne-Marie
“To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.”
― Anthony Hitt
“When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.”
― Ara Parseghian
“Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.”
― Arjen Robben
“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.”
― Atom Egoyan
“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.”
― Ayelet Waldman
“Expectations are one thing, but you’ve got to do your own. Got to do your own.”
― Baker Mayfield
“My worst expectations never happened.”
― Barbara Bush
“I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.”
― Barbara Kingsolver
“I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn’t something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.”
― Beck
“The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there’s just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It’s a lot like life about that.”
― Ben Horowitz
“At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That’s why you want to play here or coach here.”
― Ben Howland
“If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
“The idea that the president doesn’t interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.”
― Benjamin Wittes
“We want to play a great a role as possible in making sure this country lives up to the expectations.”
― Beto O’Rourke
“When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.”
― Bhuvneshwar Kumar
“When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.”
― Bill Bradley
“It’s always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.”
― Bill Paxton
“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations.”
― Bill Watterson
“No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.”
― Billy Eichner
“I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That’s kind of the way I’ve always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.”
― Blake Griffin
“Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an ‘Idol’, but we’re going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.”
― Bo Bice
“I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I’ve been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.”
― Bob Iger
“We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.”
― Boris Yeltsin
“If you aren’t going to make your revenue plan, it’s unlikely you’ll make your EBITDA or Net Income plan. You don’t even have to get complicated and look at Gross Margin or more derivative metrics – if you are off in Q1 and have any sort of growth expectations , you are going to miss for the year.”
― Brad Feld
“It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.”
― Brad Henry
“There’s always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.”
― Brendon Urie
“I say this all the time: I’ve always been really good at managing my expectations so that I’m not let down.”
― Brett Young
“Everyone should see ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas,’ hear ‘London Calling,’ and read ‘Great Expectations.’”
― Brian Fallon
“A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses – it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn’t like that. It’s not a public thing. It’s private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.”
― Brian Grazer
“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”
― Brian Tracy
“In this industry, where things change so quickly, I’ve found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.”
― Brie Larson
“My expectations have always been to be one of the top players in the world, and that matches well with Paylocity’s mission. They are changing things in their industry just like I want to make a mark on professional golf.”
― Brooks Koepka
“All clients’ needs and expectations are vastly different.”
― Bruce Bennett
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee
“Don’t be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.”
― Bruce Oldfield
“There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn’t a real force.”
― Bulent Ecevit
“I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.”
― Buzz Aldrin
“I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.”
― Buzz Aldrin
“At It’s a 10 Haircare, our products are for all hair types and create instant miracle results, exceeding industry norms and consumer expectations.”
― Carolyn Aronson
“I’m going to put a lot of expectations on myself.”
― Carson Wentz
“I think I don’t really have any expectations; I don’t look at the season as a whole – I look at it race by race.”
― Casey Stoner
“I am in the U.K. for inspiration because I’m doing a follow on series to ‘The Infernal Devices,’ called ‘The Last Hours.’ It’s a re-telling of ‘Great Expectations’ with ‘Shadowhunters’… because why not! It’s set in 1903, so I’m doing a lot of locational research.”
― Cassandra Clare
“And they know I didn’t hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I’m not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we’re playing Division II.”
― Cat Osterman
“When we in our sector talk of the adoption of Indian consumers to new products and innovative ways of doing banking, they always exceed our expectations.”
― Chanda Kochhar
“We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.”
― Charles Kennedy
“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.”
― Cheryl James
“Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.”
― Chiwetel Ejiofor
“The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet’s availability by taxing access to it.”
― Chris Cannon
“I’ve exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.”
― Chris Gethard
“When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.”
― Chris Martin
“I didn’t have any expectations with ‘Traveller’ – I don’t think anybody did. That’s how I prefer the process to be.”
― Chris Stapleton
“When I was 15 years old, the Duke-UNC game looked like the funnest game in the world to be a part of. So I chose to make sure I was a part of it for four years, and when I was at Duke, it exceeded all my expectations.”
― Christian Laettner
“Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.”
― Christopher Miller
“Real Madrid has a lot of high expectations, not only in terms of results but also with nice football and a lot of goals.”
― Clarence Seedorf
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
― Confucius
“Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.”
― Conrad Veidt
“The great thing about writing ‘Deadpool’ is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.”
― Cullen Bunn
“I’ve always had high expectations of myself. I’ve never felt that there was anything I couldn’t do in this world.”
― Dak Prescott
“I think it’s natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they’re going to go after a brand new coach.”
― Dan Gilbert
“As a franchise, we don’t have any different expectations than anyone else.”
― Dan Gilbert
“Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.”
― Dan Pena
“We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they’re only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I’m making an outlandish statement.”
― Dan Phillips
“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.”
― Dan Savage
“My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.”
― Dan Webster
“I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.”
― Dana Ashbrook
“I don’t have to do anything for anyone else’s benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.”
― Dane Cook
“Though, since the first record, I’ve dramatically changed my expectations for our records.”
― Daniel Johns
“There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.”
― Daniel Tammet
“But if I worried too much about publishers’ expectations, I’d probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.”
― David Baldacci
“Momofuku is not me. It’s everyone. I’m just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.”
― David Chang
“Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans’ expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.”
― David Hanson
“I’m always making movies for my audiences, but I’m not trying to meet their expectations.”
― David Lowery
“I identified with Pip from ‘Great Expectations,’ especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.”
― David Nicholls
“There’s no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it’s hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of ‘Great Expectations,’ even among the minor characters.”
― David Nicholls
“Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family ‘honour.’”
― Deeyah Khan
“I don’t have any expectations.”
― Delta Goodrem
“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”
― Denis Waitley
“The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.”
― Denise Morrison
“You have to realise that hypnosis doesn’t exist: it just works on people’s natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can’t make someone do anything they don’t want to do.”
― Derren Brown
“People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.”
― Diego Forlan
“People have certain expectations from me, and I want to do different characters.”
― Disha Patani
“One of the expectations growing up was that I’d become a well-known artist.”
― Domino Kirke
“We tend to live up to our expectations.”
― Earl Nightingale
“I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.”
― Edith Evans
“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”
― Edward de Bono
“Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.”
― Ehud Olmert
“The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.”
― Ekta Kapoor
“There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.”
― Elaine Welteroth
“I guess, throughout my entire time in NXT, I didn’t really have any false expectations of what it would be like to reach the main roster. I knew you’d have to work harder. I knew you’d have to bring it every single time.”
― Elias
“I think Ronda Rousey is fantastic. She’s a fantastic addition to the entire crew of WWE. I think she has kind of blown away people’s expectations.”
― Elias
“I don’t have high expectations anymore. Maybe they’ve just been beaten out of me.”
― Elisabeth Shue
“Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.”
― Ellen G. White
“A lot of new stepparents fall into the trap of letting children disobey household expectations in order to gain favor with them.”
― Emily V. Gordon
“Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.”
― Emmett Shear
“I’m so glad I got an opportunity to meet Shawn Michaels, because he didn’t let any of my expectations down. He’s the coolest guy ever.”
― Enzo Amore
“Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.”
― Eric Schmidt
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”
― Erich Fromm
“We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.”
― Eskinder Nega
“I live for the high expectations.”
― Ezekiel Elliott
“Nobody’s expectations are going to be more than mine.”
― Ezekiel Elliott
“I wouldn’t say I’m a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.”
― Ezekiel Elliott
“You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it’s not something I pay attention to.”
― Ezekiel Elliott
“’Great Expectations’ has become one of my favorite books.”
― Felicity Jones
“’Great Expectations’ has been described as ‘Dickens’s harshest indictment of society.’ Which it is. After all, it’s about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.”
― Felix Dennis
“You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.”
― Florence Welch
“The biggest problems with movies are expectations.”
― Frank Oz
“When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.”
― Frank Peretti
“They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they’ll move that rate up.”
― Franklin Raines
“Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears.”
― Frans van Houten
“I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That’s just being realistic.”
― Frans van Houten
“I’m not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.”
― Fred Armisen
“Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I’m right on track.”
― Freddy Adu
“Men… are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.”
― Frederick William Robertson
“There’s no expectations at all. Every single person that turns up to a show, you really appreciate them. Every single radio interview you do – everything.”
― Freya Ridings
“The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.”
― Friedrich August von Hayek
“The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.”
― G. Edward Griffin
“I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people’s expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple’s announcement.”
― Gabe Newell
“I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn’t fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.”
― Gabriel Batistuta
“Coach Morris wasn’t too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.”
― Gaines Adams
“We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.”
― Gareth Southgate
“While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn’t unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.”
― Gary Hamel
“So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.”
― Gavin DeGraw
“Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations.”
― George Pelecanos
“One can fall into the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations.’”
― Gerald Chertavian
“I know I have a lot of expectations to live up to, which I need to do and am willing to do.”
― Giancarlo Stanton
“Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored.”
― Gita Gopinath
“A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.”
― Gough Whitlam
“A club like Arsenal, it’s normal that expectations are high. This club must compete for titles, and that’s what we want to do.”
― Granit Xhaka
“The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.”
― Granit Xhaka
“Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.”
― Greg Boyle
“As the Internet has sped up the consumer experience, customer expectations are higher.”
― Greg Gianforte
“We don’t use the term ‘big data’ – not on our website, not with customers. Saying it sets up expectations, the wrong expectations.”
― Gurjeet Singh
“I got my first job by exceeding expectations.”
― Gwen Ifill
“My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.”
― Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
“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.”
― Hale Irwin
“As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents’ expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.”
― Hallie Ephron
“I always kept my expectations in life very tame.”
― Hannah Gadsby
“When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations… so I’m just trying to meet those. I’m not going to distract myself with other people’s expectations.”
― Hannah Kent
“Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.”
― Hari Nef
“Just because an employee does things differently doesn’t mean he or she won’t do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn’t be an issue.”
― Harvey Mackay
“My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.”
― Heather Bresch
“I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn’t fit our expectations.”
― Heidi Hammel
“I cannot be expected to behave like a film star when I have decided to serve my people. They have voted for me with expectations, and I cannot take them for granted.”
― Hema Malini
“As a creator, I always want to betray fans’ expectations.”
― Hideo Kojima
“’Moonlight’ undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance.”
― Hilton Als
“A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want to see the characters again, or you want to see certain dynamics between the characters or certain kinds of storylines. And you kind of figure out how to best fit what you want to say into that format.”
― Hiro Murai
“’Great Expectations’, in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had made of love than any denunciation on behalf of the outraged wives club could ever be.”
― Howard Jacobson
“No, I don’t make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people’s expectations – I only do what I find natural.”
― Ian Hamilton Finlay
“A tour to India is different from other tours. The expectations to win are very high from our own people, and defeats and poor performances are not forgotten easily.”
― Inzamam-ul-Haq
“No one can deny there is a lot of pressure when Pakistan and India play, especially with the expectations of the fans at home.”
― Inzamam-ul-Haq
“When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence.”
― Ivanka Trump
“Of course there’s going to be expectations when you’re playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.”
― Jack Wilshere
“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.”
― Jacque Fresco
“I set really high expectations.”
― Jahlil Okafor
“My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.”
― James Brown
“I don’t have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.”
― James D’arcy
“Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.”
― James Geary
“At Leeds, it was to stay up. I was such a young player, Leeds were my club, and we didn’t do it. That was a lot to take. At Newcastle, the expectations to win a trophy were enormous. The No. 1 thing everyone up there thinks about is the football club.”
― James Milner
“We didn’t set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.”
― James Murphy
“I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.”
― James Salter
“I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they’ve met that.”
― James Turrell
“There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.”
― James Wan
“I don’t think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don’t think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.”
― Jane Horrocks
“During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions – a development that made it more difficult to stabilize both inflation and employment.”
― Janet Yellen
“Financial market participants appear to recognize the FOMC’s data-dependent approach because incoming data surprises typically induce changes in market expectations about the likely future path of policy, resulting in movements in bond yields that act to buffer the economy from shocks.”
― Janet Yellen
“I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I’m pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.”
― Jason O’Mara
“The expectations of people and society on Samsung have grown stricter and bigger.”
― Jay Y. Lee
“We have failed to live up to the expectations of the public.”
― Jay Y. Lee
“Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.”
― Jeb Bush
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.”
― Jeff Greene
“I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone’s expectations.”
― Jeffrey Katzenberg
“Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader – not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.”
― Jeffrey Thomas
“You work hard and you have expectations. So I’m living my expectations right now.”
― Jenni Rivera
“I wrote ‘Don’t Look Back’ in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn’t contracted, so there was a freedom in that – no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I’d written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.”
― Jennifer Armentrout
“It’s very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.”
― Jenny Zhang
“’Great Expectations’ is one of the greatest stories.”
― Jeremy Irvine
“Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed.”
― Jerome Powell
“Against this backdrop of technological change and heightened expectations, it is worth remembering our broad public policy objectives, which are driven by the fundamental importance of the payments system in our society.”
― Jerome Powell
“The only way to ensure that inflation expectations remain safely anchored near the FOMC’s target is to keep inflation close to that target on a consistent basis.”
― Jerome Powell
“It’s art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn’t about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – ‘contain multitudes.’”
― Jerry Saltz
“You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can’t make any promises you don’t intend to keep.”
― Jesse Williams
“I want to continue to broaden expectations of what an Asian can be.”
― Jessica Henwick
“I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.”
― Jessica McNamee
“I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.”
― Jimmy Garoppolo
“Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.”
― Jodi Kantor
“To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don’t happen. Someone’s in a movie; someone’s not in a movie. I’ve learned not to build my expectations.”
― Joel Edgerton
“I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it’s not fair.”
― Joel Siegel
“Real is when you go to training camp. Real is when you finally get the guys in pads. Real is those guys in that locker room setting those goals because we have some guys now that can set goals and expectations for those guys in the locker room because, ultimately, who are the Cleveland Browns but those guys in that locker room.”
― John Dorsey
“’Wild at Heart’ created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher’s part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable.”
― John Eldredge
“I’m not interested in meeting people’s expectations, and I’m not interested in pleasing people.”
― John Frusciante
“When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey’s avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state’s sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.”
― John Henrik Clarke
“Chefs get sucked into the trap of ‘fine dining’ because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It’s all a gigantic waste of energy.”
― John Lanchester
“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.”
― John M. Ford
“Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president’s first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.”
― John Mica
“I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant I was going to be given a full year’s chance to make the team.”
― John Stockton
“It’s sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin – glory, love, whatever.”
― John Updike
“Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level.”
― Johnathan Joseph
“So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.”
― Johnny Bench
“Nobody really knows how I fight or what I’m capable of. Nobody has high expectations for me. I get to go out and prove I belong.”
― Johny Hendricks
“Although ‘Mockingjay 2’ grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations.”
― Jon Feltheimer
“I feel like a lot of my fans hold high expectations of me when it comes to inside the Octagon – not so much outside of the Octagon – but I feel like most of my performances are pretty dominant, so I don’t feel like I have the luxury to not perform in an extremely impressive fashion.”
― Jon Jones
“Anytime we’re interacting with someone, we’re judging them, we’re sharing expectations, we think they didn’t live up to those expectations.”
― Jonathan Haidt
“I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.”
― Jonathan Levine
“When you are very young and come through at a club, like I did at Sunderland, I suppose people do not expect as much and have not really heard much about you. Whereas, when you sign for a club, the expectations are higher.”
― Jordan Henderson
“The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.”
― Jos Buttler
“My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.”
― Joseph Altuzarra
“Everyone has expectations. You just don’t want to have them dashed, so you’re quiet about them.”
― Josh Radnor
“Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you’re immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.”
― Josh Trank
“I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.”
― Joshua Bell
“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
“Make sure you are clear about the expectations your boss has for you.”
― Judy Smith
“Every individual’s listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions. That is why one person’s musical taste is another person’s hideous noise.”
― Julian Treasure
“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.”
― Juliana Hatfield
“As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.”
― Kajol
“Everybody’s got high expectations for me. I just don’t want to let anybody down.”
― Kane Brown
“I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.”
― Kangana Ranaut
“I never had any expectations. When I was 11, I just wanted to play for England. I didn’t know when it would happen, how it would happen. I picked that dream, and I wanted that dream.”
― Karen Carney
“So many want me to do another ‘Paruthiveeran’; others are fans of my ‘Siruthai’ avatar. Extreme expectations, but I have to strike a balance.”
― Karthi
“In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that’s something I always had a hard time with.”
― Katelyn Ohashi
“I have always been able to rise above the expectations.”
― Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn’t terribly helpful.”
― Ken Liu
“When the economies of emerging markets don’t just grow but beat expectations, there’s scarcely a mention.”
― Kenneth Fisher
“I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.”
― Kevin Gates
“People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.”
― Kevin Smith
“I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please – and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.”
― Kim Cattrall
“The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.”
― Kim Yuna
“Receiving an economic boost from the digital era is not a luxury – it is essential to ensuring that Europe continues to grow and deliver levels of prosperity that meet the rising expectations of its citizens.”
― Klaus Schwab
“By not having to live up to people’s expectations, I was somehow free.”
― Kris Kristofferson
“I’m always confident, always expect high expectations for myself.”
― Kyle Kuzma
“There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I’m aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.”
― Laeta Kalogridis
“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.”
― Lana Wachowski
“Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.”
― Lando Norris
“You want a job where the pressure is on and expectations are high.”
― Lane Kiffin
“If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.”
― Larry Wilmore
“In Athens I was 17 and I didn’t have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn’t have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn’t want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.”
― Laure Manaudou
“My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they’re very supportive.”
― Lauren Cohan
“It’s nice to squash people’s expectations.”
― Lauren Mayberry
“One of the things I’ve tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I’m able to broaden people’s expectations of what I’m allowed to do.”
― Lauren Oliver
“I’ve had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn’t a romance – with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader’s expectations going into the story, and that’s very hard to predict person to person.”
― Lauren Willig
“The fewer expectations you have, the better.”
― Laurie Anderson
“We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.”
― Lauryn Hill
“At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.”
― Lawrence Kohlberg
“I don’t like to have really any expectations for myself.”
― Lee DeWyze
“The sitcom’s traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.”
― Lee Siegel
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”
― Leo Buscaglia
“I am happy with what comes, I don’t have expectations of any stature.”
― Leon Russell
“Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother’s expectations of him.”
― Leonardo DiCaprio
“It’s not really possible to open ‘The Casual Vacancy’ without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there.”
― Lev Grossman
“It’s pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.”
― Lily James
“Confounding people’s expectations was a way to maintain integrity.”
― Lindsey Buckingham
“If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.”
― Lionel Sosa
“Gamers love technology, and they have high expectations.”
― Lisa Su
“I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.”
― Lloyd Cutler
“You have expectations always when you buy players. Mostly, you have positive expectations.”
― Louis van Gaal
“Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn’t it? The expectations of it were hard on me.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea
“When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.”
― Luke Goss
“I do this for the sake of myself. It’s a selfish process. I don’t really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.”
― Lupe Fiasco
“Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.”
― Lynn Coady
“Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house’s goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.”
― M. J. Rose
“We’ve never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.”
― Maggie Hassan
“Pressure is there with any release of mine. It’s more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.”
― Mahesh Babu
“Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.”
― Mahesh Babu
“I’ve heard a lot about what second-round picks usually do – whether it’s D-League or whether it’s not playing – but for me, I have high expectations of myself regardless of where I’m picked.”
― Malcolm Brogdon
“I try not to focus too much on the expectations there are of me.”
― Marco Asensio
“I’m pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.”
― Margaret Trudeau
“Generation Alpha has very different expectations for the entire world. Everything that’s going to happen in their lives needs to be visual, on demand, adaptive, in demand, and we have to find a way to embed that into our toy experiences.”
― Margo Georgiadis
“In person, George Clooney lives up to all your expectations.”
― Mariella Frostrup
“CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.”
― Marilyn Tavenner
“I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.”
― Mario Gotze
“It was a big step for me to go to Bayern Munich. Of course, the expectations were different than at Dortmund, but that’s what I wanted.”
― Mario Gotze
“The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.”
― Mark Manson
“The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.”
― Martha Beck
“If we’re stuck with having expectations, there’s a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It’s that we often create what we anticipate.”
― Martha Beck
“I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It’s always fun to defy expectations.”
― Martin Short
“Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone’s expectations.”
― Martin Winterkorn
“I’ve always got such high expectations for myself. I’m aware of them, but I can’t relax them.”
― Mary Decker
“Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.”
― Mary Dillon
“Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!”
― Mary Douglas
“Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.”
― Mary Pierce
“Obviously, when you have a quarterback of the caliber of Aaron Rodgers, we’re going to have high expectations.”
― Matt LaFleur
“When you see a finished film, it’s very rare that it exceeds your expectations.”
― Matthew Goode
“Everything this series is being built up to be – I think it’s going to live up to those expectations.”
― Matthew Hayden
“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.”
― Max Lucado
“At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.”
― Max McKeown
“If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.”
― Megan Shull
“I have a lot of expectations on myself. That’s important.”
― Memphis Depay
“Despite his critics, Rubio has skillfully managed the expectations of many conservatives and effectively made his case for immigration reform, while working with other members to continuously improve the legislation.”
― Mercedes Schlapp
“I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.”
― Michael Gove
“In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren’t just covering a story, they’re a part of it – influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates – and despite what they tell themselves, it’s impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively.”
― Michael Hastings
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
― Michael J. Fox
“Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.”
― Michael Landon
“I don’t have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.”
― Michael Landon
“I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.”
― Michael Tubbs
“I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.”
― Michelle Obama
“I’ve learned to not have expectations. If you don’t expect things from anyone, you can’t get let down.”
― Mickie James
“The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He’s a cautionary tale for me. But he’s also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.”
― Miguel Syjuco
“I’ve always said my expectations are higher than what anyone else could put on me.”
― Mikaela Shiffrin
“Just getting to the NFC Championship isn’t good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.”
― Mike Daniels
“It’s when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.”
― Mike Huckabee
“The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.”
― Mike Pence
“There’s a victory in letting go of your expectations.”
― Mike White
“Indeed, it is a common goal to create a stronger United Nations able to meet the multitude of expectations placed upon it. To that end, I will facilitate a constructive, informed, and open interaction among Member States and with the Secretary-General.”
― Miroslav Lajcak
“Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you’re trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.”
― Missy Elliott
“I originally invested in Dropcam because I foresaw what the company and their products could do for consumers and the industry. I’ve been deeply impressed with what they’ve done in such little time, and I’m confident that they’ll continue to exceed my expectations.”
― Mitch Kapor
“In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.”
― Murray Rothbard
“High expectations are really intimidating.”
― Mya
“I have to live up to my expectations – which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.”
― Myles Garrett
“If I hope for four or five sacks, and I only get two or three, that’s still a good week for me, so I gotta go out there with those high hopes, those high expectations, and try to achieve them.”
― Myles Garrett
“Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.”
― N. Bhaskara Rao
“I am satisfied with my achievements in terms of both development and welfare. I have not only lived up to most of the expectations of people, but also surpassed some of their expectations.”
― N. Chandrababu Naidu
“When ‘Ye Maaya Chesaave’ released, there were no expectations. With ‘100% Love,’ I felt, ‘Oh my God, it has to work.’”
― Naga Chaitanya
“For commercial books in a genre, readers’ and editors’ expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers’ guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).”
― Nancy Kress
“Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it’s not up to people’s expectations anymore, its still here, and that’s says a lot.”
― Nas
“I’m drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That’s always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.”
― Natasha Rothwell
“I don’t play an instrument – I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. ‘We Are Young’ turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.”
― Nate Ruess
“I feel that ‘Tokoyo Drift’ blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.”
― Nathalie Kelley
“I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.”
― Nell Newman
“I always have high expectations for me.”
― Nelson Cruz
“My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like. So when I came out to him, that did not fit into his plan of what raising twin boys was going to be like.”
― Nicole Maines
“All the time, there was the weight of my community’s expectations on my shoulders.”
― Nina Simone
“If you write in category, you write knowing there’s a framework, there are reader expectations.”
― Nora Roberts
“I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn’t even expect to get a record deal.”
― Norah Jones
“Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.”
― Orison Swett Marden
“In the telecommunications, consumer products, and railway businesses, there are very real consequences if you don’t meet the consumer’s needs and desires. There are also substantive rewards for doing so, and especially for exceeding customer expectations.”
― Oscar Munoz
“Simply put, we haven’t lived up to your expectations… That’s going to change.”
― Oscar Munoz
“Since the Rio Olympics, the expectations are always high, and the responsibilities are also high. I am used to it now. You have to keep going and keep working hard.”
― P. V. Sindhu
“Marcus Rashford has done really well. He had a great first season, and then people had really high expectations, but he showed his quality on the pitch in the second season.”
― Park Ji-sung
“I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won’t go to plan. I think that’s the only thing that’s definite.”
― Passenger
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
― Patricia Neal
“Usually when you get a script from actors, you don’t have high expectations.”
― Patrick Whitesell
“I don’t stay in one discipline because it’s more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was ‘Just Kids,’ for which I had absolutely no expectations.”
― Patti Smith
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
― Paul Rand
“I’m totally obsessed with Dickens, and ‘Great Expectations’ was one of the first book’s I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.”
― Paul Rhys
“My expectations are incredibly high.”
― Paula Creamer
“It is a burden that people have expectations about me.”
― Paulo Dybala
“I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded.”
― Pete Buttigieg
“The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.”
― Pete Gallego
“When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.”
― Pete Holmes
“I don’t have any expectations of anything.”
― Peter Capaldi
“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”
― Peter Drucker
“Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations… They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ‘operators’ or ‘programmers.’”
― Peter Drucker
“I didn’t have huge expectations for ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ My previous album, ‘Frampton,’ had sold about 300,000 copies – a decent amount but not mind-blowing. There was talk at the label that maybe the live record could go gold. I was hoping we could do it, but I wasn’t sure.”
― Peter Frampton
“The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.”
― Peter Thiel
“I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.”
― Q-Tip
“One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.”
― Q-Tip
“I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.”
― Quentin Tarantino
“I’m a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.”
― Rachel Zoe
“A brand should live up to the expectations of people; it should deliver what it promises.”
― Radhika Apte
“If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.”
― Radhika Apte
“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.”
― Ralph Fiennes
“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.”
― Ralph Marston
“I don’t like expectations.”
― Rashida Jones
“Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.”
― Rebecca Traister
“We, as a company, take the most risks in pushing the boundaries on consumer expectations.”
― Reggie Fils-Aime
“If you’re joining the Knicks, there’s expectations that follow that; there’s a lot that comes with it.”
― Reggie Miller
“Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India.”
― Richard Attenborough
“The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.”
― Richard Ben Cramer
“I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.”
― Richard Cohen
“Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.”
― Richard M. DeVos
“Once you feel like you’re being dictated by other people’s expectations, it usually backfires.”
― Rob Zombie
“There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.”
― Robert Dallek
“The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.”
― Robert Luskin
“Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.”
― Roger Ross Williams
“Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington’s reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.”
― Ron Fournier
“Every morning, I have high expectations, and then I confront the reality of what happens at 4 o’clock.”
― Ron Williams
“I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people’s expectations.”
― Rosemary Clooney
“I have had expectations on me from a young age and I have dealt with them.”
― Ross Barkley
“My story is a little unorthodox. At first, I just wanted to book a commercial. I didn’t have any expectations, and I wanted to try something new.”
― Rotimi
“I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we’re expected to march in a straight line, and when we don’t, all hell breaks loose.”
― Roxane Gay
“The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.”
― Roy H. Williams
“My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.”
― Ruby Dee
“People have expectations of me but I’m not a magician.”
― Ruud Gullit
“I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I’m making ‘The Blair Witch Project’ – something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people.”
― Ryan Gosling
“Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing – be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app – can create all sorts of complications when things don’t go as planned.”
― Ryan Holmes
“Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.”
― Ryunosuke Satoro
“I’m not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that’s great, it also imposes certain pressures.”
― Sally Hawkins
“The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.”
― Sally Ride
“The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.”
― Salva Kiir Mayardit
“We live in a world that builds people’s expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.”
― Sam Allardyce
“Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.”
― Sam Walton
“High expectations are the key to everything.”
― Sam Walton
“Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.”
― Samuel Alexander
“The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.”
― Samuel Alexander
“False expectations take away joy.”
― Sandra Bullock
“My mother is special to me. She understands me. She has no expectations from me.”
― Sanjay Leela Bhansali
“Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they’d be in any other city.”
― Sarah Lacy
“Season 1 of CTV’s ‘The Launch’ exceeded our wildest expectations!”
― Scott Borchetta
“One of the marks of our economic management is that we’ve always exceeded expectations.”
― Scott Morrison
“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.’”
― Scott Weiland
“Whether it’s a guy getting a big contract, getting a franchise deal, that comes with expectations.”
― Sean McVay
“I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.”
― Sebastian Thrun
“Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to ‘reset’ our relationship succeed.”
― Sergei Lavrov
“I feel Arjun is one of the central characters of ‘Mahabharata’ and people have lots of expectations from me when I started working on the show.”
― Shaheer Sheikh
“I am disappointed at not being able to live up to the expectations of my supporters, but every cricketer goes through such a time.”
― Shahid Afridi
“I’m already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.”
― Shailene Woodley
“I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I’m talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn’t their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment.”
― Shalita Grant
“Other people may not have had high expectations for me… but I had high expectations for myself.”
― Shannon Miller
“My expectations for myself were really high.”
― Shaquem Griffin
“I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.”
― Shawn Johnson
“I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.”
― Shawn Ryan
“We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.”
― Shervin Pishevar
“Breaking expectations, even as an audience member, is something that I have enjoyed.”
― Shruti Haasan
“’What’s It Gonna Be?’ is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where – to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters – The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid – and then flip expectations.”
― Shura
“I really felt like ‘Chandelier’ was a big pop song. But we weren’t sure what would happen if I wasn’t willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.”
― Sia
“The future is, of course, imaginary – an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.”
― Siri Hustvedt
“Expectations are an evil thing.”
― Skylar Grey
“Compared to Alia, it’s little more difficult for Shaheen, as she has a famous father and a famous sibling, too. So, I always tell my daughters to not to pay much heed to these expectations and give more importance to their dreams. They should keep working hard and find their own talent.”
― Soni Razdan
“I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.”
― Sonia Sotomayor
“New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.”
― Sri Mulyani Indrawati
“I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there’s always going to be expectations.”
― Stephanie Sigman
“I’m a junkie for exhaustion, and I’m a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.”
― Stephen Colbert
“When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.”
― Stephen Hawking
“Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations.”
― Steve Easterbrook
“SpaceX is very unusual. I don’t know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations.”
― Steve Jurvetson
“We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.”
― Steven Gerrard
“This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.”
― Steven Squyres
“What’s hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.”
― Steven Weber
“Pop shouldn’t be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.”
― Steven Wilson
“You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.”
― Stevie Wonder
“A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.”
― Sue Perkins
“I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.”
― Sylvester Stallone
“I had no expectations of white people at all.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Customers are enormously punishing when companies don’t meet their expectations.”
― Tahl Raz
“Quality that significantly exceeds the customer’s expectations doesn’t seem to pay off. This ‘delight the customer’ stuff isn’t rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.”
― Tahl Raz
“The expectations were low for ‘Castle;’ people thought we’d be one season and done.”
― Tamala Jones
“The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.”
― Tamara Tunie
“When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.”
― Tara Stiles
“When we practice cleaning our slate and interacting without motive, what we actually ‘get’ in return is greater than what we might have expected. Life can open up and be full of surprises that blow past our narrow expectations.”
― Tara Stiles
“That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don’t expect them to learn, if you don’t expect them to succeed – then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Tavis Smiley
“If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.”
― Terrell Owens
“I have very high expectations out of myself.”
― Tessa Blanchard
“When expectations are really high, you’re doomed.”
― Thomas Gibson
“The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.”
― Thomas J. Sargent
“Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.”
― Thomas J. Sargent
“Being star kids, there are certain expectations to live up to. There’s a certain pressure from the public. And, if your film doesn’t work, it’s even worse.”
― Tiger Shroff
“The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also – and this is the awesome part – now there are fans, too!”
― Tim Federle
“I’m as strict as my parents – I have high expectations, too. I’d never ask the kids to do something outside their capabilities, but I’ll encourage them not to be lazy and to try hard.”
― Tim Minchin
“People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don’t like to be classified.”
― Tobias Hill
“I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.”
― Todd Haynes
“The biggest expectations we’ll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.”
― Tom Herman
“We have to learn how to manage expectations.”
― Tom Herman
“I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.”
― Trent Dilfer
“At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment – this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.”
― Tullian Tchividjian
“Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.”
― Twyla Tharp
“But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.”
― Uma Thurman
“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.”
― Verite
“I talk out of experience that relationships don’t get messy; it’s our heads that are messy. People’s expectations and beliefs screw up relationships.”
― Vicky Kaushal
“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
“Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and also present it in such a way that it is liked by all the audience.”
― Vijay Sethupathi
“Well, for us, it’s always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it’s always a big plus no matter what happens.”
― Ville Valo
“I’m excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn’t have high expectations, I wouldn’t come back here.”
― Vinny Testaverde
“I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.”
― Vladimir Kramnik
“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.”
― W. Edwards Deming
“Let’s face it, us ’60s folks had pretty high expectations.”
― Walter Becker
“Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.”
― Walter Kirn
“When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.”
― Wendy Kopp
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
― Wendy Wasserstein
“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
“You have to be aware of what the audience’s expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren’t looking.”
― Wes Craven
“Being known doesn’t get you anywhere; it just makes the bar and the expectations higher, especially if the venue wants to charge a certain ticket price because you’re known. So people are like, ‘I paid $60 to see you, and you’re on TV’.”
― Whitney Cummings
“As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.”
― William T. Vollmann
“I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.”
― Zach LaVine
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