Quotes About Managing Expectations

#1. Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#2. Was that a smile? (Nora)
Was what a smile? (Ewan)
That strange curvature of your lips. You know, the one where the corners are actually going up instead of down. (Nora)

Kinley MacGregor

#3. I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

Colin Firth

#4. You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.

Michael Hogan

#5. Children become adults who become children again.

Kristin Hannah

#6. You what. Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy. You seen little guys like that, ain't you? Always scrappy?

John Steinbeck

#7. My beautiful son ... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.

Jencarlos Canela

#8. All she wanted was five minutes to herself, to hear herself think without someone demanding explanations or that she fix something she couldn't fix.

Starla Huchton

#9. I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.

Maile Meloy

#10. Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.

George Meredith

#11. Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

Seth Godin

#12. I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#13. I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

Dave Attell

#14. Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I'm not a pirate, and she's not my captured princess.

Simone Elkeles