Manage Expectations Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Honestly, you can't manage expectations. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with everyone else. And everyone else is going to have expectations, and all you can do is do your job and do your best and be true to yourself.

Erin Davie

#3. Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

Sergei Lavrov

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

Robert Fripp

#5. Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

Wellington Mara

#6. I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I was up so early.

William Shakespeare

#7. Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

Dave Hickey

#8. I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

Jack Layton

#9. One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Q-Tip

#10. Let's be honest. There's not really any safe place to meet an aspiring head of a top-secret organization, trained in every manner of mind control and manipulation and bent on word domination by any means necessary.

Matt Kindt

#11. 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

#12. We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship
we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Dimitri Simes

#13. When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.

Twyla Tharp

#14. Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.

Shams Tabrizi

#15. People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

Kate Zambreno

#16. God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, Be still and know that I am God!

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

Jess C. Scott

#18. My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.'

Steve Carell

#19. All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families.

Michael Learned

#20. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Rumi

#21. I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

Vince Gilligan

#22. At my age flowers scare me.

George Burns

#23. Hope is a flower bud in the garden of the mind, waiting to bloom in the morning sun.

Debasish Mridha

#24. What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

Lysa TerKeurst