I think the only expectation is that I put on myself to do everything right and to put myself in a position to perform as best that I can.
Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there’s a certain expectation of documentaries that they’re supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether – well, perhaps.
I think that people have this unrealistic expectation that people are just supposed to love them. I’m sorry to break it you, but ain’t nobody supposed to do nothing.
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.
I’m probably one of the best players in the world and there should be expectation when you’re in contention to be able to continue to play well in that situation.
You have to cope with expectation if you want to play for England.
Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He’s the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.
My dad tells me to ignore any expectation.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
I know nobody likes practice, nobody enjoys it, but you have to build some type of excitement and expectation and learn something.
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed – but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn’t know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.
Third books are a scary thing. They come with the weight of so much expectation, and I’ve been keenly aware of that.
Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn’t mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.
‘As Long As I Know I’m Getting Paid’ is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there’s some expectation that I’m going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
I don’t think you can create effectively toward expectation. I’m not in the service business.
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
When you expect something, there’s also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.
Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing… is also a ticking time bomb of frustration… You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.
I think there’s always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.
Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you’re doing.
Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you’re just passing someone in the street. Inside those moments – however brief they may be – there is a kind of anticipatory silence.
People win ‘Oscars’, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that’s partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
Giving back was an expectation, not an option.
I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who’ll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don’t allow anybody’s expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.
When you become the manager of a leading club, there are so many situations you have to cope with. You have to deal with the people in charge of the club, the players, the media, the expectation… you have to deal with the whole environment around the club, and that is something you can find difficult.
I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
The more you play, the more people’s expectation increases.
There’s so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that’s really hard for an 18 year old.
We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we’re not doing it to ourselves?
You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
I never do any song with any expectation.
The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as ‘Chronicle’ was, it’s not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying ‘This is what the sequel should be’ because there’s a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that’s really what’s going on with ‘Chronicle 2.’
Stay-at-home mothers, working mothers, people are very tough on each other. I don’t see that in the world of men. I don’t see working men who have children, and those who don’t, judging each other. I think there’s a different category of expectation.
TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.
When I got to the second album, there was an expectation, because we’d sold nearly seven million albums on the first record, that this would do eight or nine.
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, ‘Don’t get your hopes up,’ you’re fighting ancient genetic programming.
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
I know it’s hard to blame the time, but there’s a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that ‘Superman Returns’ was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don’t think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.
Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.
We’re very lucky in England: everything’s very structured. But in India you have to deal with chaos, and I think that helps dealing with expectation.
