People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
I was very lucky – I grew up with two parents who loved each other and gave me unconditional love. They set high expectations for me, and they gave me an infinite amount of support. So I stand on their shoulders; I follow their example in every way.
There are different games for different people and different expectations. Sometimes you want a great story, and sometimes you don’t. I don’t believe we should have stories in every single game. Sometimes it doesn’t matter.
There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.
The hard thing about ‘The Saint’ was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying – she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn’t have high expectations for that film.
With a popular show, you know that there’s expectations there, so that’s a little nerve-wracking when you’re new and you’re just trying to find your legs on something, but it’s exciting, too, because that’s what we work so hard for.
There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I don’t have any horror stories about glass ceilings and expectations and tense studio meetings.
I have no interest in having my wife as my manager and I don’t think she has to because it would be kind of cliche. It’s almost in the line of expectations where it’s like, oh of course you’re going to put them together, and I don’t want that.
Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored.
So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don’t want to hear any of that.
I always wanted to create my own musical world. That takes time and must be earned, and it does mean sometimes confronting the expectations of the audience.
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they’re very supportive.
I’m drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That’s always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.
Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.
If you’re pretty, you want to be ugly. If you’re loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people’s expectations.
Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations. They know the tropes so well that, when you turn on those, it can be shocking because there’s a complacency that comes with watching those films.
I set really high expectations.
I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.
The reality of the writer’s world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers’ expectations.
I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing – I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I’m able to accomplish.
I had no expectations of white people at all.
Momofuku is not me. It’s everyone. I’m just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.
At Leeds, it was to stay up. I was such a young player, Leeds were my club, and we didn’t do it. That was a lot to take. At Newcastle, the expectations to win a trophy were enormous. The No. 1 thing everyone up there thinks about is the football club.
When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.
I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
I think, all my life, I’ve grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.
There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.
I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety – expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.
My second year was particularly difficult because I had high expectations.
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He’s a cautionary tale for me. But he’s also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.
My expectations are incredibly high.
By not having to live up to people’s expectations, I was somehow free.
I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that’s probably the right way to build a career. I don’t know what’s wrong with me – I just don’t think like that!
People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles – job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don’t map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it’s actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
Once you feel like you’re being dictated by other people’s expectations, it usually backfires.
I’m so glad I got an opportunity to meet Shawn Michaels, because he didn’t let any of my expectations down. He’s the coolest guy ever.
As women, we’re busy. We’re under stress and under pressure, and the expectations are so high for us, so the first thing to go is self-care.
Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears.
As an urban school superintendent, I learned that hiring, training, and investing in professionals to support our children’s social and emotional development, meeting academic expectations for students with special needs, and finding more minutes of instruction in the week, not fewer, mattered.
I didn’t have any expectations with ‘Traveller’ – I don’t think anybody did. That’s how I prefer the process to be.
Expectations shouldn’t be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the crowd around him and never grabbed as many women as he suggested. Lower the bar for what you can talk about, and you lower the bar for what is acceptable behavior.
The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.
My expectations for myself were really high.
Don’t show off every day, or you’ll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
