Quotes About Expectations

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

Good families are generally worse than any others.

The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

I never go for the stereotypically good-looking guy. Maybe it's unfair, but if I see a good-looking guy, inside I'm like, 'What does he have to offer?'

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.