In India, it’s a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I’m going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can’t do, or I’m going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be ‘down with the kids’ – which would be excruciating.
Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto – a commitment to deliver.
I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there’s no expectation.
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
When things are going well, everyone’s coming into training, having a lot of banter and joking about and enjoying things, and when you are not, it’s not that feeling, because the expectation level is to win.
There’s always expectation with a Lady A single.
I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it’s going, so if I act against that, I’ve created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
I love going to other people’s weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.
The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we’re to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
When I met Ram Charan, he told me not to worry about how much my films make. After ‘Magadheera,’ people began expecting big things from him. So he did films to keep up to that expectation. He advised me to not fall into that trap.
Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.
I think because of how big the women’s teams at Lyon and PSG are, the expectation on the team and the huge fan base – it leaves the door open for so much media. But I think that’s a good thing.
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Sometimes the best experiences are when I know nothing about this movie: I’ve never met the director, and I come and see something and I’m blank, because then it’s coming at you in a way it would never come at you if you’d read the script, with an expectation.
When you play for Liverpool, there’s always pressure, pressure to perform, expectation. Of course, that’s the reason why you want to go there.
As a director, your expectation and reality don’t always match up, and I think that that’s… I think it’s a little jarring.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn’t win.
You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I’ve accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I’m not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I’ve lived all this time, and things don’t happen.
Accountability for police officers should be an expectation, not an aberration.
I translate Hawaii as a place where people make sure I’m having a great time, eating terrific food, without any expectation of anything in return. It’s a place for people to be happy. It sounds corny, but in Hawaii, it’s not; it’s uncorny.
I’ve probably exceeded every expectation I had for myself, going into my rookie year of what my NFL career would be.
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.
If you’d asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel – often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
I realise that there is a certain expectation from a ‘typical heroine’ in Bollywood. She is expected to be beautiful and have a toned body. And to achieve that, I have literally starved myself.
Public servants should be focused on serving the public – not any special interest group, and good governance should be an expectation – not an exception.
I don’t think the expectation is that the ‘Psych’ musical is going to be ‘Rent,’ so I think as long as we didn’t completely humiliate ourselves and it is funny and it is in the tone of what we do, we’d have a fighting chance of pulling it off.
There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don’t feel it.
Today, there’s an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
As devices become more portable and content is increasingly digital, connectivity is fast becoming a fundamental expectation and lifestyle requirement.
Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.
Thirty years on, I am no longer as certain about anything as I was at age 20. I now regret my support for the war in Iraq and kick myself for the naive expectation that freedom was destined to prevail.
Representing the Selecao is a very great expectation, being able to play is even greater.
Of course, there’s no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It’s a silly expectation – there’s a Mexican population in Paris, but they’re not exactly traveling there from across the border. Paris also doesn’t do Peruvian all that well, either.
As far as I’m concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I’m not interested in white people loving me. It’s an unrealistic expectation. Black people don’t love anybody but themselves.
The audience had a huge expectation from me in Bengal, and now in Hindi also people have started expecting from me because they know I am a senior actor from Bengal.
I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.
Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.
Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.
Doors opened for me because of who I am. But the downside is, there is way way too much expectation from me, much more than there would have been if I were from outside the film industry.
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn’t fit with expectation – I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
I’ve written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve kind of freed myself of the expectation that I ever will.
