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Expectations Quotes

In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I'm pretty confident about my musicality and my talent.

Talent People Me Expectations Pretty

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Laurie Anderson

Expectations Better You Fewer

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

William T. Vollmann

Change Myself Negative Expectations

The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

Kaya Scodelario

Life Rest Expectations Think You Up

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Knowledge Decision Expectations Need

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

Beginning Promises Expectations You

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

Water Struggle Expectations You Down

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

Goals Team Expectations Dream Want

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

Marriage Future Time Expectations Go

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Angel Book Game Expectations Natural

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.

Sebastian Junger

Son Ugly Expectations Long You Gay

Expectations shouldn't be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the crowd around him and never grabbed as many women as he suggested. Lower the bar for what you can talk about, and you lower the bar for what is acceptable behavior.

Women Expectations Behavior You Talk

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

Good Expectations Numbers Historical

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

Expectations Broadway Show Some Very

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

Choices Expectations Friday Year New

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Benedict Cumberbatch

People Perception Expectations You

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.

People Expectations You Whole Like

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Expectations You See Rare Film Your

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Mind Expectations Possibilities You

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

New York Expectations New First Get

I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.

Love Me Action Expectations Doing

What's great about being an opener is that even when you lose, you win. There's no pressure. And no expectations. If you sell merch, you're killing it. But when you headline, you have to sell those tickets.

Great Win Expectations Pressure Lose

CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.

Marilyn Tavenner

Expectations Depend Contracts Track

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.

Attitude Art Book Expectations Never

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