Appreciation Quote by Stephen W. Hawking

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

— Stephen Hawking

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I…

— Arthur Nersesian

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

— Marianne Williamson

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

— Carolina Herrera

My expectations for myself were really high.

— Shaquem Griffin

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

— Simone Biles

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

— Shannon Miller

I've always said my expectations are higher than what anyone else could put on me.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

“One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.”

— Mitch Albom

It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.

— Jonny Lang

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

— Michael Tubbs