Quotes About Expectations

I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.

If you cannot fulfill the aspirations of people, what is the difference between you and the previous government?

I don't take the pressure that your next thing has to be bigger than the previous one.

Of course we have the right to have expectations towards Europe - especially towards the Europe that left us to be the prey of the Russians in 1945 - but above all we have the right to rule ourselves here on our own and decide what form Poland should have.

All early entrepreneurs fall prey to the same problem, which is everyone believes that if you are super intense in the beginning, work long hours, that you can create something quickly and that entrepreneurship is almost something that happens overnight.

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

I wanted to be all sorts of things. I went through phases. I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a lawyer. For a little while I wanted to be a priest, which my dad wasn't very happy about.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.

Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

If I have children, I am never going to read them stories about finding Prince Charming because they will grow up feeling disappointed.

I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

It wouldn't bother me at all if I weren't Princess Caroline of Monaco.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.