Quotes About Expectations

When you become a mega-icon overnight, there's no way to keep that intensity continually going.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

I don't think you are ever prepared for success with bands like Simple Minds and U2. It wasn't until your fourth or fifth album that you really got that big-league success. It doesn't happen overnight, so you get used to it.

I am not in a hurry, I don't want to become a star overnight.

You could become an overnight star in Bollywood with just single hit, but your fate would change with a single flop. That's why I do not derive satisfaction however much name I earn for myself in Bollywood.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

There's a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.

I didn't really know how people would take to me, especially at Hobart - it can be difficult having an overseas player who hasn't played any international cricket.

I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year.

Apple's iPod success led them to believe an even bigger breakthrough was possible with the iPhone. In some respects, the iPhone hype overwhelmed even Apple.

Look, I just read out loud for a living. Most of my friends are doctors or lawyers, people I went to university with, they're on the train at 7 A.M. and don't get home until 7 P.M. They work bloody hard, and they're allowed to be overwhelmed. I don't think I'm allowed, really.

Each of these standards says, in effect, "I will dictate to you exactly how you must do every aspect of the work Ã¢â'¬Â¦ except the hard part.

Although your staff may be exposed to the message "work longer and harder" while they're at the office, they're getting a very different message at home. The message at home is, "Life is passing you by. Your laundry is piling up in the closet, your babies are uncuddled, your spouse is starting to look elsewhere. There is only one time around on this merry-go-round called life, only one shot at the brass ring. And if you use your life up on C++ . . .

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Cool technology alone is not enough. If it were, we'd all be riding Segways and playing with robotic dogs.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations

I'm saying she looks fine on the outside, but inside is somebody who's going to need a man a lot more than he's going to need her.