Quotes About Expectations

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

When I was young, I was like, 'I want to want to work with this director and that director'. I've stopped doing that. You put yourself in a place where you get disappointed.

I'm disappointed anytime I don't play well.

In India, I tried never to show enthusiasm for the things I wanted most, but instead to focus it falsely on something showy, ask the price of that and then make a disappointed face when told.

We want to go out and bring the house down. Anything short of that, we get disappointed.

I'm a little disappointed in my rebounding.

Me, Jesy and Jade were all told at our first audition that they could see us in a girl group. All of us were a little bit disappointed because they thought we weren't good enough on our own.

Real men don't know what they want for Christmas. Despite the fact I'm deeply disappointed every Christmas. I pride myself on not wanting anything. Children want things, women want things, dogs and cats want things, but men don't.

I have so much respect for when my parents did. They did not raise me talking about money and I would have disappointed them if I went to China.

Being in the best league in the world you are expected to score goals. I am disappointed when that doesn't happen but that is not to say I'm not working on it and trying to improve every day.

I've been in and around football all my life, but I've never been good at it, which I think my dad was very disappointed by.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered.

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!

I know the audience wants to see me without clothes in my coming films. At the risk of disappointing them, let me say that it's simply not going to happen. I will not do any such film.

I do not like disappointing people.

Salman Khan's support means a lot to me. I do feel nervous at times about disappointing him. I try not to let his expectations down.

It's disappointing when you put in a lot of hard work and it doesn't really pay off the way that you want it to.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

To not play in the Champions League is a disappointment, something negative.