Expectations Quotations

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

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.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

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

I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

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.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

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.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

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.

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

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.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

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

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.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

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

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

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.