Quotes About Expectations

I hate when people in a commercial have more fun in 30 seconds than I will ever have in my whole life.

If you date, you will meet your share of weirdos and jerks. That is as sure as death and taxes.

You don't die in the United States you underachieve.

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!