Quotes About Expectations

The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.

The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Corey Taylor won't be mad at me saying, but I didn't think there'd be other bands. I thought we'd wear masks forever.

I assume everyone is going to hate my music before listening to it or hate me before meeting me because of where I come from and my name - it's not Smith or Taylor.

It might be interesting to people to say that I would do something with Taylor Swift, but the reality is, it's so not on my list of things to do.

I don't want to worry about someone calling me and going, 'You better find a way to get another Taylor Swift record out this quarter.' When there's that kind of financial pressure dictating your path, it's hard to take creative risks.

What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a chat,' and you still don't get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don't like you, you're straight out again. In a sense, that's more honest.

We must teach our children to be kinder, we must examine our own biases and be better, we must expect more of each other and our elected leaders, and most importantly, we must demand policies that focus on progress and dismantle structures that disadvantage.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry.

At Tottenham Hotspur, we can share the pressure, but on the South Korea team, some of the players have more pressure than others.

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

We put pressure on ourselves because we want to be so great; we want to be the best team possible that we can be.

We didn't know how it was going to go but it was always going to be hard for me to go straight from Melbourne into Manchester City's first team. It was always the plan for me to go on loan.