Quotes About Not Meeting Someone's Expectations

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

Ward Cunningham

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

Sarah MacLean

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

John Frusciante

#4. When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Hortense Calisher

#5. Knowledge guides emotion more than emotion distorts knowledge.

Alison Gopnik

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

Dhirubhai Ambani

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

Ron Kaufman

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

Saji Ijiyemi

#9. When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

Robert Holden

#10. 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

#11. Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.

Tommy Franks

#12. I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.

Adi Shankar

#13. I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

Charles Baudelaire

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Only those who have not paid a high price for the gentle joy of living and breathing can allow themselves feelings of melancholy, denial and lofty disdain of life.

Alexander Kushner

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Kevin DeYoung

#22. You can tell all you need to know about someone from the way cows are around him.

Gary D. Schmidt

#23. Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Jane Smiley

#24. 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

#25. My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Walter Kohn

#26. 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

#27. The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.

Rupert Everett

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

Farshad Asl

#29. 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