Though ‘Child’s Play’ is ultimately more concerned with subverting storytelling expectations and satirizing the expected trajectory of traditional mystery, Posadas does embed some insights about the writer’s responsibility to the reader.
Nobody really knows how I fight or what I’m capable of. Nobody has high expectations for me. I get to go out and prove I belong.
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn’t always work out.
There are expectations in everyone’s lives. It might be small or big, but then you cannot forget to prioritise what is important and try to focus when it is really needed.
I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That’s kind of the way I’ve always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.
I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.
For commercial books in a genre, readers’ and editors’ expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers’ guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
I think sometimes it’s hard, parent’s expectations, wanting to be seen by the people in your family and feeling that you can’t do that, you can’t get them to see you the way that you want to be seen, and come to an understanding or find a way to talk that doesn’t revert to bad habits.
You work hard and you have expectations. So I’m living my expectations right now.
I have to believe in myself, set goals for myself, set expectations for myself, and continue to work for those goals every single day.
Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I’m right on track.
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.
I’m lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I’m happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It’s probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
Expectations are one thing, but you’ve got to do your own. Got to do your own.
As the Internet has sped up the consumer experience, customer expectations are higher.
You’re under pressure when you produce facts. You’re working with facts in journalism, but you’re under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
We have to learn how to manage expectations.
I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it’s OK if you don’t live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.
I view edge providers as a significant bright spot in our struggling economy. They are tirelessly innovating, growing, and meeting – often exceeding – consumer expectations.
And they know I didn’t hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I’m not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we’re playing Division II.
We, as a company, take the most risks in pushing the boundaries on consumer expectations.
We didn’t set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.
The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there’s just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It’s a lot like life about that.
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
I know that there’s people that have expectations of me, and I’m a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you’re never sure whether that’s going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, ‘I liked your book,’ I don’t know if it’s going to happen again.
In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there’s a simple existence. People, whether they’re cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.
I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
When you go into to vacationing with kids, what people don’t get is that there is a portion of it that’s going to be unpleasant because you’re traveling with children. When people have these expectations that it’s going to be perfect or amazing, that has never been my experience.
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we’re supposed to look like and it’s fed to people at an age that’s too young.
I have very high expectations of myself. I’m a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
It’s great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people.
Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
The worst kind of businesses are ones where there are no expectations set out for employees.
I think expectations of ‘Doctor Who’ should always be high, because it’s a show that must always progress and get better and better.
I don’t have to do anything for anyone else’s benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
I think anytime you have expectations for your team and for yourself and you have goals that you want to accomplish you can’t overlook the small stuff and the baby steps.
When you do acoustic shows, there’s always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don’t want to hear me.
Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.
The expectations some Americans put on me is too much, is what I would say. But I don’t take it that way. I know no one means harm to me like that or wanting to put too much pressure on me.
I’ve always had high expectations of myself. I’ve never felt that there was anything I couldn’t do in this world.
Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it’s not something I pay attention to.
I’ve always got such high expectations for myself. I’m aware of them, but I can’t relax them.
Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.
Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed.
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
Barry Bonds was still young when his father’s fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.
A lot of people think I popped out of some pink cloud fully formed, ready for action, but I’ve been putting songs on SoundCloud since I was 16. Five people would listen and like them. I never had any expectations for myself.
I don’t think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I’m frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy.
Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.