Top 180 Expectation Quotes

I’m very lucky to be a comedian, and I feel privileged that people come to see me in the expectation that I will make them laugh.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

I thought I was prepared for space, and it still absolutely defied every expectation and dream. It is an incredible thing to put yourself on a rocket and launch off the planet. It is an amazing thing to see the planet from space. This blue sphere is almost indescribably beautiful.

When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our players in a way that would be consistent with traditional sports.

When I write, I don’t have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

The very expectation that an actor loves to experiment becomes a shackle that is difficult to snap out of.

Moving to a new school, or up a year at an existing school – with new friends, teachers, subjects, rules and expectation – is a big deal for young people. All of us who are adults remember how daunting it was, but we sometimes take it for granted that children will be able to cope with the change.

I love trying to match a really hard expectation.

Unfortunately, in today’s world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

‘First Gen’ is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

‘Kitchen Confidential’ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.

You can’t control it once you turn it into the label, so there’s the expectation that it’ll leak a week before the album comes out. That’s the world we live in.

Students take out loans with the expectation that they will receive an education that sets them up for success – yet too many students are left with enormous debt from predatory institutions and no education to show for it.

I’d love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it’s not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I’m sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It’s full of expectation. It’s a thrill that’s unequaled anywhere.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I know that there’s a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn’t mean I can’t write a good, gory murder scene.

I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint.

I don’t think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

There is an interesting parallel between the ‘Argo’ story and ’13 Hours’ in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy.

The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.

This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.

All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others’ content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it’s never been central.

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I’m sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

As a director, I was apprehensive about the outcome of ‘Kick.’ As it scored well, it is my duty to get above that expectation.

In a gallery, there’s an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the organization does. Any miscommunication during the recruiting process needs to be cleared up ASAP. Whenever possible, give new employees a written plan of objectives and responsibilities.

I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.

There’s a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been – but there’s still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

On ‘Modern Family,’ we have outlines, really strong outlines, when we go off to draft, so you have a reasonable expectation that that will be the story of your episode.

I definitely think there is a lot of expectation and pressure being a star’s son.

Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn’t this expectation of what they’re about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it’s a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports – there was an expectation. One of the things I’ve taken away from that is that I’m unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better – you’re doing them a disservice if you don’t.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

I’m not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I’m just getting to be me.

You don’t hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that they’ll make a valuable contribution and turn in amazing work. But, in order to have that expectation, you need to make sure you’re fostering an environment that allows them to do so.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

The greater the pressure and expectation, the more I relish the opportunity.

There’s a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It’s kind of unfair.

I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies.