Top 100 Quotes About Expectations
#1. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo Buscaglia
#2. We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.
Psy
#3. They are the ships, and you are the wind. You do no lower yourself to their rules or expectations. You blow in whatever direction you feel is needed and leave them with no choice but to oblige.
Elise Kova
#4. Open relationships can give you the freedom to create unique relationships, explore yourself and your sexuality, and challenge society's expectations.
Tristan Taormino
#5. Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.
Peter Dinklage
#6. With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
Aaron Ashmore
#7. The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
Ashwin Sanghi
#8. I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.
Albert Belle
#9. Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
Arthur Nersesian
#10. It doesn't matter why the door opens. If it opens, don't hesitate to walk through it, but be prepared to work harder than expected. Expectations of you are always higher than they may outwardly seem.
Lauren Maillian Bias
#11. Beer has terroir not for the soil in which the hops or grain are grown, but for the people in the area for whom the beer is brewed, who shape by their cultural expectations how that beer will be.
Tim Beaumont
#12. If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.
Jeb Bush
#13. So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
Pat Boone
#14. Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
Anthony Hopkins
#15. When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.
Ron Kaufman
#17. I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.
Cristin Milioti
#18. Analysis is concerned primarily with values which are supported by the facts and not with those which depend largely upon expectations.
Benjamin Graham
#19. They were built up to great expectations, and when these could not be met, they turned against those who made the promises.
Wilbur Smith
#20. The pleasure is there; between your expectations and regrets.
Bryant McGill
#21. There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.
Kevin Smith
#22. Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.
Debasish Mridha
#23. In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.
Deepak Chopra
#25. Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
Paul Murray
#26. Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
Alfie Kohn
#27. The idea of living with someone scares me senseless. I've done it before for five years, and I shut down to cope with it. I don't want to give up myself again. I hope to find someone who is happy just to continue "as is" without expectations. (Kes)
Rudy Simone
#28. Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.
Lynn Coady
#29. To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
Criss Jami
#30. It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.
Drew Goddard
#31. Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.
Sue Monk Kidd
#32. A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.
Adi Godrej
#33. Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Jim Rohn
#34. If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
Anais Nin
#35. Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#36. Expectations. So the labor force coming from the east is
Craig Taylor
#37. The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities.
Seth
#38. There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
Iris Murdoch
#39. God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
Matthew Henry
#40. I have never met a politician who has exceeded my low expectations of them.
Grant McLachlan
#41. 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
#42. The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.
James Redfield
#43. hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night!
Kenny Werner
#44. I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.
David Oakes
#45. Life is a journey without destination but it unfolds our conscious and subconscious expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected
Pen
#47. I had no expectations,' Philippa said. The tears stood still on her face. 'This is one lesson I know by heart already.
Dorothy Dunnett
#48. I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations
Elijah Wood
#49. If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical person".
Deep Trivedi
#51. Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome.
It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.
Joyce Wycoff
#52. As pilgrims we effectively slip into the role of our spiritual ancestress and run back and forth between the hills seven times. This symbolises our own quest in this world for whatever we are seeking and God's Mercy which fulfils our quest even beyond our expectations.
Kristiane Backer
#53. I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.
Joel Siegel
#54. I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond.
Shahid Khan
#55. Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously.
"Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten years. Poor old Devereux, y'know! Must try and raise his spirits.
Georgette Heyer
#56. I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.
Rachel Zucker
#57. There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#58. People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.
Tobias Hill
#59. There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We submit to the process, trusting that the science is sound, even when what we're called to do hurts.
Russ Ramsey
#60. Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.
T.F. Hodge
#61. The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.
Gemma Arterton
#62. It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.
Paulo Coelho
#63. The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.
Erik Weihenmayer
#64. Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
James Geary
#65. It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.
Rajneesh
#66. Falling in love is a beautiful phase till expectations happen ...
Saru Singhal
#67. 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
#68. When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.
Nouman Ali Khan
#69. Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.
Scott Adams
#70. The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself.
Ernst Junger
#71. I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
Shailene Woodley
#72. I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice.
Alex Ferguson
#73. They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.
Tahereh Mafi
#74. Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always
high, and the results usually disappointing.
Robert Orben
#75. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
Peter M. Senge
#76. Don't let truth and grace forsake one another. If you raise your child with only truth (or your laws), they will never live up to your rules or expectations. No one can fulfill all of the law. On the other hand , if you only give grace to your children, they will run wild without restraint.
Neil Kennedy
#77. Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
Sarah Addison Allen
#78. Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! - No Excuses!
Lorii Myers
#79. 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
#80. At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great.
Gregor Von Rezzori
#81. Though most spiritual seekers start their search afraid of disappointment, Jesus says that he will always be infinitely more than anyone is looking for. He will always exceed our expectations; he will be more than we can ask for or imagine. So
Timothy J. Keller
#82. 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
#83. There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.
Chris Witty
#84. I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.
Behati Prinsloo
#85. I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. - Two Kinds
Amy Tan
#86. To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#87. Self-actualized people ... live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
Abraham H. Maslow
#88. This ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations ...
Christopher McDougall
#89. Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
Epictetus
#90. I'll see the sprouts in the morning when you wake up from sleep, and with glee look at the way the bright sun, I'll see it ... And then I have no more desire for others the whole day. Everything, everything is covered with these expectations.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#91. No matter how long you have been waiting, the man God has for you will surpass your expectations. You will meet him when god says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#92. I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
Barry Bonds
#93. The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world.
James C. Scott
#94. Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
Viola Davis
#95. The possessor of such great expectations, - farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;
Charles Dickens
#96. There are "bus bench" workouts and "park bench" workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.
Dan John
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.
Michael Cerveris
