Top 100 Expectations Are Quotes
#1. Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.
Seanan McGuire
#2. When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.
Mason Cooley
#3. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.
Balroop Singh
#5. 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
#6. Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
Wm. Paul Young
#7. 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
#8. Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
Anne Lamott
#9. Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.
Lysa TerKeurst
#10. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#11. Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
Lee Ann Womack
#12. After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"
Jazmine Sullivan
#13. When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
Frances O'Grady
#15. Evaluation eliminates frustration.
We should also evaluate unrealistic expectations.
Unrealistic expectations become unmet expectations. And unmet expectations are like kindling wood-it only takes but a spark of frustration to set them ablaze and burn those involved.
Lysa TerKeurst
#16. 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
#17. I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
Laura Wasser
#18. In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.
Delia Ephron
#19. Clashing expectations are what most consistently derail any team, and especially a culturally diverse team. So if you take the time to "define" the goal carefully upfront, you've addressed one of the most difficult and important parts of the innovative process.
David Livermore
#20. If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled.
H.W.L. Poonja
#21. 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
#22. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.
Elizabeth Bowen
#23. Live simply", she said. "Don't expect so much out of life. You can only be disappointed when your expectations are not met so strive for the best but keep your expectations simple." I
Donald Murray
#24. Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As
Marian Keyes
#25. Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#27. Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
Beau Willimon
#28. When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.
Luke Goss
#29. There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'
Kim Williams
#30. The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
David Bergen
#32. ...our expectations are the result of our beliefs about how likely something will happen combined with how much we value what we hope will happen.
Robyn R. Jackson
#33. It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.
Lily James
#34. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
Bill Gates
#35. Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered expectations are the norm.
Brian J. D'Souza
#36. There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.
Robert Dallek
#37. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered.
Lauren Oliver
#38. Expectations are the engine of our perceptions.
Seth Godin
#39. Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.
Rajneesh
#40. All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.
Bruce Bennett
#41. Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
Stefan Molyneux
#42. For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.
Kahlil Gibran
#43. Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.
Anne Lamott
#44. One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
Jeff Bezos
#45. 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
#46. Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
Brad Warner
#47. We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
Sheryl Sandberg
#49. Your attitudes, action, reactions and expectations are harboured in the power of your thoughts. Think positively and you will smile at the harvest time.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. It's easy and natural to be thankful when your expectations are met. The real test of your faith is when things don't go your way, or when you are in pain.
Maddy Malhotra
#51. Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
Brad Meltzer
#54. Unrealistic expectations are often the seeds of bitterly stuffed emotions.
Lysa TerKeurst
#55. 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
#56. I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.
Jimy Williams
#57. Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.
Gabrielle Dennis
#58. Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.
Demi Lovato
#60. The more that you expect, the less happy you will be
because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful
Dennis Prager
#61. Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
Dustin Clare
#62. If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.
Lionel Sosa
#63. If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.
James Marsden
#64. Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you'll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.
Grant Cardone
#65. There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#66. I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.
Scott Snyder
#67. Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
A.B. Simpson
#68. 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
#69. You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
Mike Krzyzewski
#70. I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
Nicole Kidman
#72. Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
Lionel Shriver
#73. Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities
Stephen R. Covey
#74. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
Brian Tracy
#75. One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.
Glenn Reynolds
#76. The audience's expectations are ever-present.
Ian McKellen
#77. 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
#79. 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.
Carl Hagelin
#80. The landscape for business isn't changing because of social media, it's changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
Brian Solis
#81. Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions
Sherif A. El-Mawardy
#82. Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
E.L. James
#83. ..fresh friends from completely different worlds faced with the hard shapings of truth and deceit, of right and wrong, and of the equivalent damage when high expectations and low expectations are devastatingly unmet.
Christopher Scotton
#84. Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.
Chris Shiflett
#85. My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
Bill Parcells
#86. By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.
Richard W. Fisher
#87. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.
Ken Blanchard
#88. Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.
Yunus-bek Yevkurov
#89. Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)
Kate Christensen
#90. Love's expressions are boundless,
Expectations are ... nothing but Love!
Angela Suba
#91. We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.
Robert Rubin
#92. High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton
#93. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.
John C. Maxwell
#94. As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.
Kevin Drew
#95. But you're forgetting that my expectations are much higher than yours.
Candace Knoebel
#96. Expectations are resentments under construction.
Anne Lamott
#97. When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
Stephen Hawking
#98. Youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#99. Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always
high, and the results usually disappointing.
Robert Orben
#100. Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.
Scott Adams
