Quotes About Meeting Expectations

#1. Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again

Seth Godin

#2. I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations.

Brendan Rodgers

#3. Ignorance is a low-energy state. It takes constant vigilance and work to climb out of it.

Steven Novella

#4. Action means carrying out your plan to fruition, moving forward with projects, meeting and exceeding expectations.

Farshad Asl

#5. I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

Charlie Munger

#6. The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Just as you need the man in your life to love you unconditionally, even when you're not particularly lovable, your man needs you to demonstrate your respect for him regardless of whether he's meeting your expectations at the moment.

Shaunti Feldhahn

#8. The psychologist Mark Schaller has shown that disgust is part of what he calls the "behavioral immune system" - a set of cognitive modules that are triggered by signs of infection or disease in other people and that make you want to get away from those people.40

Jonathan Haidt

#9. If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Larry Wall

#10. Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ...

Muse

#11. So much of our busyness comes down to meeting people's expectations.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Jeff Bridges

#13. I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.

Francis Chan

#14. The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

Julia Quinn

#15. The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

Ward Cunningham

#16. Practical in our expectations of the Criminal Law. ... [For] we have merely to imagine, by some trick of time travel, meeting our earliest hominid ancestor, Adam, a proto-man, short of stature, luxuriantly furred, newly bipedal, foraging about on the African

William Landay

#17. 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

#18. I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

Michael Heseltine

#19. It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.

Barbara De Angelis

#20. Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

Ed Robertson

#21. If you want to be outstanding, stop meeting expectations, start exceeding them

Saji Ijiyemi

#22. Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

Ron Kaufman

#23. She pushed my chest like she wanted me off of her, but her fingers had my shirt clutched in them and I knew she was full of shit. She wanted me.

S.C. Stephens

#24. Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#25. What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

Rob Bell

#26. Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.

Max O'Rell

#27. I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

John Frusciante

#28. Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

John Calvin

#29. He nodded. I no longer focus on meeting their expectations because I am too focused on outdoing hers.

Sarah MacLean