Expectations Quotes - Page 33

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because its not fair.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

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.'

You'll never know everything about the person you've chosen to marry. But the more information you have before entering into this commitment, the less chance you will be confronted with unfulfillable expectations.

Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...

As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it's on camera or going to the market or whatever it is. And the truth of the matter is, that's not always the way it is. We don't always have our high heels on, we don't always have our makeup on.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.