Quotes About Setting Expectations

#1. Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.

Alan Willett

#2. Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you'll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

Grant Cardone

#3. Everything hinges on how you relate to your brain. By setting higher expectations, you enter a phase of higher functioning. One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.

Deepak Chopra

#4. It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Scott Weiland

#5. Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.

Richard Branson

#6. Gabriel actually laughed. Luckily for Philippa, she's beautiful enought that another man will come along who has the balls to accept what she's offering.

Eloisa James

#7. Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Josh Trank

#8. All the great sadnesses, great temptations, and great mistakes are almost always the result of being alone in life, without a prudent friend to advise us when we are troubled by something more serious than our normal everyday problems.

Jose Saramago

#9. The good thing about setting your expectations low is that you will not often be disappointed.

Danielle L. Jensen

#10. Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

Richard M. Nixon

#11. Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

Alice Hegan Rice

#12. I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.

Faye Dunaway

#13. Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Les Brown

#14. Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#15. Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Greg Anderson

#16. I didn't like trusting, I didn't like setting greater than mild expectations,

Penny Reid

#17. I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I've had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#18. When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Ryan Reynolds

#19. It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth

Niels Bohr

#20. Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.

Michelle Moore

#21. I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

Stephen Colbert

#22. I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

Neko Case

#23. Don't only dream it, live in it.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

Beau Willimon

#25. To me absurdity is the only reality

Frank Zappa

#26. low income does not mean low expectations

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#27. We are not looking for endless variety
we are looking for fashion.

Diana Vreeland

#28. This is exciting," said J.Lo. "We are sneaky agent men, like Bond James Bond."
"I don't know where you pick this stuff up.

Adam Rex

#29. 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