Expectations Quotes · Page 37

“If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations”

— Jonathan Tropper

I understand what it is to be a Yankee. Expectations are ramped up even more.

— Aaron Boone

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.

— Anonymous

To avoid disappointments only expect from an everlasting source.

— Terry Mark

Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.

— Rudolf Dreikurs

Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

— Landon Donovan

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

— George Bernard Shaw

I feel like expectations definitely drive you to go insane in a sense.

— Nelly Korda

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

— Sam Allardyce

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have…

— Guy Finley

My belief is that a positive culture works best because people want to meet or exceed expectations, not demands.

— Ron Williams

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

— Steven Wilson

“You can give your data product a better chance of success by carefully setting the users’ expectations.”

— Dj Patil

At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further…

— Max McKeown

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

— John Maynard Keynes

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was…

— Jess Row

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this…

— Francis Bacon

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house,…

— Dale T. Mortensen

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules.…

— Sandra Bullock

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations…

— Chris Crutcher

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear…

— Andrea Bocelli

Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

God is also fully aware that the people you think are perfect are not. And yet we spend so much time and…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all…

— Andrew Weil

When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for…

— Bernie Glassman

When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments…

— Kenneth Arrow

“It only hurts us to love when we do so with expectation. And that’s not really love, anyway. Love has no expectations,…

— Scott Stabile

I always feel happy, You know why? Because I don't expect anything from anyone, Expectations always hurt.. Life is short.. So love…

— William Shakespeare

All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to…

— Colin Powell

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above…

— Henry Rollins

We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible,…

— Walter Reuther

“I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept…

— Tom Walsh

I think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.

— Maya Moore

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

— Dalai Lama

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

— William Hazlitt

Season 1 of CTV's 'The Launch' exceeded our wildest expectations!

— Scott Borchetta

Release the need to measure upto the expectations of others.

— Senoraroy

When expectations are too high, sometimes the disappointment is out of proportion.

— Deco

“Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion.”

— Jenna Bayley-Burke