Quotes About Disappointment

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

Piper took me one step further in that it got my first real recording contract but the band just didn't quite mature. It didn't break things open, but it got me to the door.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.

While we are disappointed in performance in 2016, we believe we have a path to a recovery.

Everyone's disappointed when they don't feel like they play well or they make a mistake. I'm the first one to hold my hand up and try and rectify that in training or the next game.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script, the email that goes along with it in reference to the character, read the script, loved it. Then I never heard from Mr. Daniels again, and the next I saw was that Oprah Winfrey is now playing the part.

Not one person has ever sent me a drink because I was Caroline in 'Nick and Norah.' People reference it; people say really nice things about it, but I was sure I would be getting more free drinks.

When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.

Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'

Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.

To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle.

In sports, you deal with disappointment often, but it's how you handle it and come back from it that shapes you. All these lessons are transferable to life and have really helped me with the adversities I've had to deal with in life.

An excuse is the handy explanation we offer when we disappoint other people.

Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down.

I'm always disappointed when we lose, and it's happened quite a few times.

After films like 'Happy Days' and 'Kotha Bangaru Lokam,' I should have been flying high, but my career didn't quite turn out that way.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.