Quotes About Expectations

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

That's how life is. All eyes on you, and all things point to you. Once things don't go well, fingers going to point.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

From my point of view, a lot of the things that we've done over our entire career have always been a big failure because it was never the way that I planned it. But then there's always upsides with it that turn out to be better or greater than the original plan.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

You don't have to be too clever to know that if Barcelona loaned me to another team, it's because they have little interest in me.

All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together.

I never get to think about myself when I do films. I started in advertising, so I always have to think about what my client and my audience things. If a film doesn't work, it's a big failure.

I think part of my business problems stemmed from a feeling that I had to be more than a good climber, that I had to do something more 'meaningful.' And that may come from my father.

All my close friends are normal dudes and then I will hang out with some girl who is a musician and everyone thinks that's what it's all about.

On your first film, you think these are going to be your closest friends for the rest of your life. You form a bond, but then you go back to the rest of your life.

You ask people, 'What is the circus?' They'll say, 'Animals, clowns and acrobats!' That's what people want. If you say you don't have animals, they walk away.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.