Expectations quotes

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.