Quotes About Expectations

Money can make people look at you in strange ways. You get phone calls from people you haven't spoken with in a long time, and they'll leave a message saying, 'Do me a favor, call me back. I have something I want to ask you.' I'm not going to answer those calls, because there's always something behind it, like a loan.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.

Most people just settle - for a job or relationship, or where we live. Here's the strange thing though: when you start going outside the box and questioning things, then people - because we're taught this - start ridiculing you.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

It's no big deal if I disappoint strangers.

Well after 'Fast Car' was so huge, everyone was asking me, 'What's the next song?' At the time I just had ideas I was working on, but it was very clear I needed to finish another song ASAP, and that's how 'Perfect Strangers' came about.

I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.

Honestly—and maybe some of you can relate to this—I just can't stand the pressure of being responsible for hosting a memorable (and not in a bad way) evening. Martha Stewart, bless her heart, intimidates me. That level of entertaining is so over my head: What do you mean, you didn't dig up your own potatoes for this dish? You didn't make the doilies? The plates didn't just come out of a kiln? I love Martha, but it gets ridiculous.

Grace scares a lot of people because it doesn't come with enough bullet points and three-part outlines for those who would rather not have to think too much.

This process of interpretation, or sometimes misinterpretation, which has much to do with the expectations we bring to any given event, is one reason we might get the impression that there is a mismatch between perception and reality

You're after perfection,'Matt said. 'Is that so awful?' 'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.

When you're an A+ person, you want A+ people around you, and everyone has to be accountable for doing A+ work.

never let our expectations define our level of thankfulness.

Don't worry," says Ricky. "I'm sure everyone isn't bringing a present. You can just think of paying the cover charge as your gift." "What? A cover charge? Presents? What are these people, a bunch of capitalists?

What's her problem?" Tara asks from behind me. "High expectations," I say. "Misplaced high expectations.

It was a weird feeling knowing that people were looking to me for help – and frustrating too. You save the damn city a couple times, and suddenly everyone expects miracles from you.

When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." —Archilochus