Quotes About Expectations

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

The central difficulty for royalty when it comes to political matters is that they are somehow expected to be in the world and yet not of it, to speak for their people and yet to have nothing to say until someone writes it for them. To be, in short, an empty vessel.

It followed that if a man was to maintain his position, the woman of the house could not be seen to go out to work. (One consequence of the need to preserve the appearance of prosperity on one income was that the husband and father figure was obliged to work longer and longer hours to earn the means to keep the family afloat, becoming in the process the distant, cold figure of caricature.)

Lucy wondered where she might be at that exact moment if she hadn't spent so much time trying to be the right version of herself for those around her.

The successful fundraiser is the one who is disappointed by almost all that he does. Nothing is good enough. The gift isn't large enough, the presentation wasn't dramatic enough. But he will go on, persevere, work even harder to meet his high expectations.

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

She said he acted like any small chore or favor was the biggest burden in the world.

It is relatively easy to serve those above us — even the world expects this — but Jesus served downward.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll wind up naked.

Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.

Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.

Did I get my picture in the yearbook under "Most Likely to Commit Suicide"?

My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

is up to the parents to consider this fundamental question: "Am I genuinely able to give my child what they want and feel good about it—and not expect anything in return?

As far as she could tell, men didn't have close friendships, not like women did, but they still had that human need for connection. Every movie and TV show and magazine article told them it was their job to go out and grab what they wanted at the same time it told them that women were theirs for the taking.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

Young women should pave their own path. I find it quite confining to live up to anybody else's expectations of who you should be.