Quotes About Expectations

I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.

It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and off it with the engineers, without really thinking about what people are expecting from me on the outside.

I feel like sometimes people see us as like robots and out there expecting to win every time. But, in reality, that's not how it is, and it's not that easy.

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

As a reggaeton act, I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

You have to learn and develop from every experience you see on the field. I might see an unscouted blitz. I might see different coverages than I'm expecting. So I need to process and make those adjustments as I go.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

At the beginning of the first season, you don't have that pressure to perform at 100 per cent, because it's always hard when you first start. But now, in the second season, people are expecting big things from you, so you can't really disappoint them.

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

It just feels good to talk to the coaches and know what they're expecting so I can get better and just be happy.

Everybody's expecting a lot from me.

I've spent a lot of years confused. Am I straight? Am I bi? Is there something wrong with me that I'm not attracted to girls? Everyone's always expecting me to be gay. I'm like, 'No, I love men.'

Everyone expects goals, and I want to score them, but most of all, I want to contribute to a successful team.

Anytime someone expects something from me, I expect about five times more from myself.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.

Nobody expects girls to do something smart or give one liners in a film.