Quotes About Expectations

It's New York - it comes with it. If you can't deal with it, you leave. If you lose, they talk about you. When you win, they love you.

I'm from here, so I know how it is playing in L.A. If you're winning, they love you. If not, they'll find someone else to do the job.

You can give up the best years of your life knowing that no matter what you do or how you do it, your step-child may not love you or want or need to have anything to do with you once they have left home.

I have worked with a lot of kids. Most of them have been really lovely. But there are a lot of trappings.

While it would be lovely to play well every week, that is simply not going to happen.

I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren't right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.

And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I'm not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we're playing Division II.

We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.

Lucas is living the life that I wanted, but I want to be clear, I don't feel there's been any pressure for him to live it.

When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.

What hurt most were the people who came up to me and said they lost $1,000 on me. It just makes you mad.

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

I understand that it is very difficult for Barca and Madrid to win everything until the end.

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

Not every magical moment in your career is going to happen on the biggest stage of the year.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

I don't want another 'It Wasn't Me.' I've been asked that question so many times. Do I want a song of that magnitude? Great, always, but not the same type of music.

I'm feeling a lot of pressure because it is first time for me to cast as the main character.

It's mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles - not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

I haven't got the kind of films from mainstream cinema which I would have wanted. But then mainstream cinema has a different bunch of people who are happy working with each other, which is fine.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.