Quotes About Expectations

My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.

When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect.

As the father of three daughters, I can tell you, not every kid is cut out to be a STEM graduate.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

The standard Bristol set at being a mother is high for a woman to have to step into. She, as a mom, is crushing it.

The last thing I want to do is to present something as 'Stephen King, Part II,' and have it be something that's a big disappointment.

Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

My biggest false steps have actually been when I tried to do very different projects. I found I was getting people saying, 'Why does Whit Stillman think he can do a film about blacks in early '60s Jamaica? Or the Chinese and the cultural revolution?' Those were the two biggest failures I had getting off the ground.

Broadway is the same as Hollywood. Every few years we say we reached the mountaintop, then we take two steps back.

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.

I believe we should take steps to ensure that travel is not only cost effective, but also in line with what the public expects from public employees during challenging economic times.

Every fan wants to win every year, that's how my dad was. It would be nice to be able to do that every year, but I think Lakers fans know, as long as they see progress, and steps going in the right direction, they'll be patient.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

People are quick to stereotype you and very lazy in their imagination to think beyond the first few films a heroine does.

I'm not feeding my kid off movie roles so it's easy for me to say 'no' to things but it's important for me to have this presence and I know it's easy to stereotype and pigeonhole certain people that come from a certain genre but I can do more than a lot of people expect.

I want to break the stereotype that when an actress becomes a mother, she can only do certain type of roles.

For marriage, yes, people always had their opinions of, 'Oh, you're too young,' because it's become a stereotype, for some reason, for people to get married later in their 20s.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

If a young man is interested in a young woman, he starts by praying about the relationship. With a go-ahead from the Lord and his parents, he then approaches the girl's parents. The parents pray and, if the young woman has a reciprocal interest in the young man, her father talks through courtship and its expectations with the fellow.5

Even if Democrats do succeed, it won't save us. While there are many great Democrats and many exceptions to the trends I have described in this book, by and large the story has been a disappointing one. We have surveyed this party's thoughts and deeds from the Seventies to the present, we have watched them abandon whole classes and regions and industries, and we know now what the results have been. Their leadership faction has no intention of doing what the situation requires.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.