You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can’t make any promises you don’t intend to keep.
Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
If we are going to compete in this world we’re in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families’ hearts are going to be broken that their kids won’t be able to get a job in the 21st Century.
It’s hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we’re writing for the most important people: the fans.
I don’t like expectations.
Season 1 of CTV’s ‘The Launch’ exceeded our wildest expectations!
It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
Deathstroke is a villain. Don’t come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He’s a bad guy, and that’s the fun of it.
I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film – then you can layer in thematics.
I’m not setting too many expectations for myself. I’m just trying to create opportunities for something interesting.
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
I’ve exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.
When we were making ‘Teddy Perkins,’ we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might’ve seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.
With ‘The Angel’s Game’, there was a lot of pressure from the expectations – expectations from the book industry and from readers; it’s natural.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people’s expectations.
We have the talent in place, and I think if you are a Jaguars fan, you should be excited, and you should have some expectations that we’re going to be a sustainable, winning organization now.
Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.
It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you’re young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you’re gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.
We want to change the way people think about England teams. At the men’s tournaments, we haven’t exceeded expectations, and it’s the same with the women’s. If we can change that, it could have a knock-on effect, even for the men’s team.
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people’s expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
I am satisfied with my achievements in terms of both development and welfare. I have not only lived up to most of the expectations of people, but also surpassed some of their expectations.
I think, with every kid I coach, I’m trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.
I am a bad planner, I cannot really plan my future, so I am keeping my expectations very grounded.
We want to play a great a role as possible in making sure this country lives up to the expectations.
Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn’t terribly helpful.
When ‘Ye Maaya Chesaave’ released, there were no expectations. With ‘100% Love,’ I felt, ‘Oh my God, it has to work.’
Real Madrid has a lot of high expectations, not only in terms of results but also with nice football and a lot of goals.
Make sure you are clear about the expectations your boss has for you.
The great thing about writing ‘Deadpool’ is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.
You can’t write about a personal struggle if you’re going to water it down to meet everyone’s expectations about what’s appropriate.
It is a burden that people have expectations about me.
I’m excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn’t have high expectations, I wouldn’t come back here.
I went into NXT with no expectations. That’s what I was told when I was hired – have no expectations, just do the best I could – and that’s always what I’ve done for the last fifteen years. That’s what I did, and you know, it’s obviously working out pretty good.
Although ‘Mockingjay 2’ grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations.
There’s a victory in letting go of your expectations.
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations… so I’m just trying to meet those. I’m not going to distract myself with other people’s expectations.
I’ve already exceeded my expectations for myself. I’m one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be… I never thought the things I’ve experienced in my life, I didn’t think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.
The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.
Listen, I’ve been pretty fortunate. And if I’ve been underrated, it’s actually been something I’ve been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don’t mind.
To me, race is not all about grievance. It is also about pride and empathy and humanity and understanding the value of difference. But along with that, there are also expectations that we should set for ourselves and for others. We should expect to be treated as equal citizens.
When you write your first book, you’re writing in a vacuum; it doesn’t matter how much time it takes. And then with the second book, you’re on contract, and you have deadlines, and it’s a little bit tougher. And also the expectations. You don’t want to let your characters down.
All of everything we’ve ever done has been riding on low expectations. ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,’ a terrible idea. Doing ’21 Jump Street’ as a movie is a terrible idea. ‘The Lego Movie’ sounds like a terrible idea.
Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn’t cringe when I saw myself on ‘The Hour.’ It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it’s good.
I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.
I’m a junkie for exhaustion, and I’m a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.
When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
When I put out a record or single I don’t allow myself to set up expectations like, ‘This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.’
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.
Coach Morris wasn’t too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
I really don’t want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.
