Quotes About Expectations

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

It is very difficult for those always in the spotlight who have constant pressure on them where there is however but a tiny window of freedom if your fortunate enough not to dream." -Julian Quintero

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.