Quotes About Expectations

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

I had hard feelings around the holidays, the one time of year I couldn't help but fall prey to the canned self-pity Christmas prescribes.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!

I think it's important to have a consistent communication with the fans but I don't think it should be expected.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.