Quotes About Their Expectations

#1. The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#2. Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we [filmmakers] made.

Tom Hanks

#3. Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. Everyone just kind of leans their expectations of who you are on you and it makes you petrified of who you really might be.

Iain S. Thomas

#5. There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don't have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanity's maelstrom from time to time, or sit on the river bank and observe.

Celia Stander

#6. Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

Chris Lilley

#7. In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

Hayao Miyazaki

#8. JOURNEY: I'm never more proud of my mother than after seeing her handle her parents that year. She's finally learning to be herself around people who'd like to keep her in a box of their expectations.

Bijou Hunter

#9. Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional - the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

Geoffrey Wood

#10. Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.

Melody Beattie

#11. I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

Laura Wasser

#12. I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Buzz Aldrin

#13. When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Kate Bornstein

#14. Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.

Henry Petroski

#15. The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

Reggie Bush

#16. More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Simon Sinek

#17. If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.

Scott Tinley

#18. A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#19. Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#20. I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me
just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off.

Cheryl Strayed

#21. I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

Emily Procter

#22. I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.

Robin Hobb

#23. I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

Justin Timberlake

#24. The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.

D. James Kennedy

#25. To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? ... They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

Sheri S. Tepper

#26. First they applaud you. Now you have become VICTIM. Just to get their applause, you will lie more and more. You will start fulfilling their expectations and you will become more and more unreal. This is a vicious cycle.

Osho

#27. There have been times when I truly feel like I'm retarded and that everybody thinks I'm retarded, and because they think I'm retarded, I get nervous and I act like a retard, which simply fulfills their expectations. It's a big circle. The retarded circle of my life.

Geoff Herbach

#28. Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

Lenny Wilkens

#29. The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

Christina Romer

#30. The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

Frederick Lenz

#31. It makes my skin crawl when people tell me, 'Don't worry, you'll get another series.' Their expectations have little to do with mine.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#32. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

Ken Blanchard

#33. I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

Liz W. Garcia

#34. I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.

Jackie DeShannon

#35. They don't know they have expectations, but I show them by counterexample what their expectations were.

John Darnielle

#36. Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

Libba Bray

#37. I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

David Levithan

#38. 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

#39. Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

Irving Townsend

#40. That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

Alexander McCall Smith

#41. Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.

Wendy Williams

#42. The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

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

Sarah MacLean

#44. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

James E. Faust

#45. Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.

Tristan Taormino

#46. People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Travis Luedke

#47. It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Brad Henry

#48. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#49. A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

Roz Savage

#50. They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace - that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.

Paul Greenberg

#51. Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending on their childhood.

David Brooks

#52. Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.

John F. Akers

#53. Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

Trey Songz

#54. I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.

Kimberly Elise

#55. Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#57. When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over.

Salman Rushdie

#58. Catherine, people don't always live up to our expectations. Sometimes, they live up to their own.
From Our Lady of Stone, an unpublished play

Vanda

#59. This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations.

Kay Koplovitz

#60. Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.

Jandy Nelson

#61. Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Brian Tracy

#62. If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

Jaime Escalante

#63. Naturally, everyone is expected to enter the future only once, but by the transport medium of dreams, great people enjoy the future twice! They pay a visit into the future by dreaming, and they relocate to settle in it by their purposeful actions!

Israelmore Ayivor

#64. Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents' idea of success, and you'll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

Nancy Rose

#65. There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see their limitations because they have these walls around them. Harmony Korine exceeds those walls, and those are the types of people who go on to exceed people's expectations.

Riff Raff

#66. It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

#67. Many consumerist economies stay afloat by manipulating the low self-esteem of their consumers and by creating spiritual expectations through material means.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#68. Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

#69. Do what makes you happy. It sounds so simple and yet it's so hard, because few of us do. We live out of fear. We live for others, their hopes and expectations. We do what makes everyone else happy.

Viola Shipman

#70. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered.

Lauren Oliver

#71. She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations.

Ian McEwan

#72. When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. but look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be.

Joel Osteen

#73. I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

Darynda Jones

#74. Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.

Seth Godin

#75. We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

Chris Hodges

#76. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

Bob Anderson

#77. How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours?

Sheldon Vanauken

#78. Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

Tana French

#79. Abusive parents have inappropriate expectations of their children, with a reversal of dependence needs. Parents treat an abused child as if the child were older than the parents. A parent often turns to the child for reassurance, nurturing, comfort, and protection and expects a loving response.

Benjamin James Sadock

#80. People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.

Barbara Smoker

#81. Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.

Kwame Alexander

#82. Children will often rise or fall according
to the expectations of loved ones in their lives.

Leta B.

#83. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#84. She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.

Elizabeth George

#85. Copywriting basically consists of taking something dreadful, putting it in a box with a shiny ribbon, and presenting it to someone. Any disappointment the recipient has upon opening the box is entirely due to their own high expectations and therefore their fault.

David Thorne

#86. It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

Seth Rogen

#87. Don't burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#88. Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#89. In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

John Rawls

#90. People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.

John C. Maxwell

#91. ...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.

Katarina Bivald

#92. When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

Dave Ulrich

#93. Don't be angry," the Bard said. "Most people live inside a cage of their own expectations. It makes them feel safe. The world's a frightening place full of glory and wonder and, as we've both discovered, danger. Flying isn't for everyone.

Nancy Farmer

#94. People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard.

David Brooks

#95. Cruelty is not the only way fathers can ruin their sons. Expectations can do the same damage.

Sarah MacLean

#96. It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#97. It was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.

Immanuel Kant

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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