Quotes About Expectations

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

As an NFL player, and as a veteran in this game, no one cares what you're doing during the offseason. They only care about what you do on the football field.

I feel like I have a pretty good head on my shoulders about what to expect and how to come in and work as a veteran.

If I outline Prince Charming, I could end up with someone with no chemistry. I don't believe in trying to calculate one type of chemistry via algorithm, but I do think you need to do as much as you possibly can.

I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?'

When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.

In the stadium when you're playing, you feel the negative vibe going around for not playing the ball forward, or for not pressing.

You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro made history by participating in the first male-on-female vice presidential debate against George H. W. Bush. What should have been a groundbreaking moment for gender equality in politics became a forum for old gender expectations.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world... but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

I've played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there's nothing there, and vice versa. I've never based how I feel about my performance on stats.

My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play each like the other. And of course I know a lot of guitar fans who wish I would stop playing the lute and vice versa.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

You either get to play a vicious mother-in-law who hates the bahu, or makkhis and naagins. There is no creative satisfaction in TV.

Sometimes you're a victim of your own success.

I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.