Expectations Quotes · Page 41

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

— Quentin Tarantino

I try not to have any expectations so I don't have any disappointments.

— Anonymous

You're not disappointed in what it is. You're disappointed in what you thought it would be.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The expectations and demands at Arsenal definitely shocked me at the start.

— Aaron Ramsdale

Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.

— Dov Davidoff

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

— Mary Decker

Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

— Brad Warner

We spend too much time wondering why we're not good enough.

— Anonymous

Pressure is a combination of expectations, scrutiny and consequences. If the consequences are grave, then you feel more pressure and if you…

— Gianluca Vialli

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be…

— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

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

— Pepper Schwartz

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

— Crowder

I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's…

— Kimberly Elise

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

— Kenneth Fisher

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations.

— Steve Easterbrook

Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient.…

— Anonymous

“What kind of a place is Expectations?" inquired Milo, unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's…

— Norton Juster

If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be…

— Chris Lehane

There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there…

— Akbar Ganji

“We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey…

— Justin Davis

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there…

— Angela Carter

I really value the freedom I have as a Christian that's an artist but not necessarily a Christian artist. I think it…

— Ben Rector

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!…

— Laurence Sterne

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in…

— George Eliot

The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category…

— Amber Heard

[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend…

— Neal Stephenson

Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold…

— Caroline Myss

I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party…

— Maile Meloy

Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return…

— Dalai Lama

Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its…

— Walter Russell

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

— Matt Redman

“life's greatest disappointments come from the highest expectations.”

— Anita Papas

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

— Ann Brashares

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

— Norton Juster

Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation.

— Bill Bartmann

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

— Ron Kaufman

I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

— Anne-Marie

“There y’all go again,” Stephanie said. “Low expectations.” Cyd”

— Kim Cash Tate