Expectations Quotes · Page 40

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Fans always have an opinion of their own. We only try to live up to their expectations.

— Akhil Akkineni

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

— Simone Biles

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

— Rob Zombie

I'm looking forward to a state championship, those are my expectations.

— Austin Rivers

“What men fear most is their unrealized expectations.”

— Jeff Wheeler

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

Trust leads to expectations and expectations bring tears So, I don't trust Anyone. .

— Zeeriox

“Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.”

— Sue Fitzmaurice

Since the Rio Olympics, the expectations are always high, and the responsibilities are also high. I am used to it now. You…

— P. V. Sindhu

I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.

— Jonathan Levine

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy…

— Alan Green

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

— J. Frank Dobie

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to…

— Trent Reznor

There's nothing wrong in showing you care for someone. What's wrong is expecting them to do the same.

— Nishan Panwar

Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I…

— Sania Mirza

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect…

— Tavis Smiley

I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain. It affects people around…

— Alan Pardew

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon…

— Sigmund Freud

“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After…

— Pat Riley

I had no expectation about getting a nomination, but I was watching nonetheless. My wife and my son got really excited. I…

— Tobey Maguire

I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you…

— Anonymous

Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a…

— Janet Mock

Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,…

— David Fontana

But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something…

— Sherman Alexie

“Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey, Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every…

— Mehek Bassi

There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their…

— Adrian Tomine

Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give…

— Deepak Chopra

[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular…

— Noam Chomsky

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as…

— Philip Roth

When we experience moments of ecstasy-in play, in art, in sex-they come not as an exception, an accident, but as a taste…

— Gabrielle Roth

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

— Henry Petroski

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

— Anonymous

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

— Anne Rice

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

— William Poundstone

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

— Shannon Miller

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

— Charlotte Mew

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

— Charles Dickens