Expectations Quotes

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.
Shawn Ryan

Days, Audience, Higher

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
Chris Martin

Work, Against, Judged

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
Bear Grylls

Life, Live, Someone

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Wentworth Miller

Business, Actor, Works

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.
Josh Radnor

Everyone, Quiet, Dashed

The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
John Sununu

Away, Effort, Support

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Joyce Maynard

Best, Long, After

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
Ville Valo

Big, Matter, Happens

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

Children, Through, Full

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.
Kevin Smith

Failure, Said, Failing

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Roy H. Williams

Truth, Knowledge, Giving

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
Kevin Smith

Put, Keep, High

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
Anna Deavere Smith

Woman, Proud, Generation

I don't have any expectations.
Delta Goodrem

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.
Ayelet Waldman

Pretty, Both, Act

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
James Brown

Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
Daniel Johns

Since, Though, Changed

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.
Lupe Fiasco

Selfish, Anyone, Process

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.
Iyanla Vanzant

Help, Woman, Old

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.
Mike White

Victory, Letting

It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.
Lev Grossman

Brain, Around, Vision

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
Michael Haneke

Art, Attitude, Book

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Amy Tan

Time, Parents, High

The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.
Jenny Eclair

Yourself, Before, Weather

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
Ibrahim Babangida

Leadership, Chance, Stand

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
Trey Anastasio

Life, Friendship, Dreams

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
Ann Richards

Best, Mother, Live

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
Jonah Hill

Change, Good, Great

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.
Josh Turner

Life, Family, Travel

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