Quotes About Expectations

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on." You get one or two takes. So it's a tough job.

I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her.

And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work.

Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.