I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.
Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone’s expectations.
There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I’m aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother’s expectations of him.
I think Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays like New Year’s where people develop such high expectations that even if it’s a decent day, it doesn’t live up, and it’s disappointing.
I’ve never been short of putting high expectations on myself; I’ve never been short of saying I want to win a Stanley Cup.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe… That’s why it’s good to defy expectations sometimes.
Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You’re not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.
I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn’t fit our expectations.
I think that we could be more careful about what we’re saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It’s unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.
Half the people might like me – the other half might not. But throughout my life, I have had high expectations for myself – so I just try to make the non-believers into believers.
I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
In this industry, where things change so quickly, I’ve found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.
‘House of Balloons’ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that’s something I always had a hard time with.
It’s art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn’t about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – ‘contain multitudes.’
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
But if I worried too much about publishers’ expectations, I’d probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations.
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell’s music, I look at it and say to myself, ‘I’m going to quit – why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?’
Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house’s goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
Let’s face it, us ’60s folks had pretty high expectations.
The future is, of course, imaginary – an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.
My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, ‘I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.’
The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.
I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.
Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
All the time, there was the weight of my community’s expectations on my shoulders.
Sequels are generally done in a rush. They’re done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don’t. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different.
I’m not interested in meeting people’s expectations, and I’m not interested in pleasing people.
The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also – and this is the awesome part – now there are fans, too!
Well, I am a Malayali and I know the kind of expectations my fans have about my films. That, for me, is the biggest award. So I try and pick roles that I hope viewers will like. Malayalis want actors to be subtle in their acting and they enjoy realism.
Retouching is an incredible tool but can also create unrealistic expectations for women who don’t understand that an image is not how the subject really looks. Even the subjects themselves can’t live up to their retouched images.
‘Great Expectations’ has become one of my favorite books.
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations – and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.
The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people’s expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That’s how your career takes off – it’s just consistency and time.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
The pressure is all self-imposed, and it’s to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It’s actually more than that, though. I wouldn’t want to make a record that didn’t live up to my expectations.
I am used to the low expectations people have of me: I have a bubbly personality, I smile a lot; I am very feminine.
We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.
Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised ‘costumed Dickensian characters.’
It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest.
If you’re fortunate, you’ll meet people over the course of your career who exceed your expectations in every way. When you work or spend time with them, you find yourself wanting to be a better person.
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
There’s no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it’s hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of ‘Great Expectations,’ even among the minor characters.
The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you – to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you’re being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it’s going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
I don’t have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
