Quotes About Expectations

Especially in our industry, everything is so prim and proper; you'll never really see anyone show their sad side, because everyone wants to be perfect.

This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Interns can be hard on me and I'm hard on them. They have no experience and I have little patience when they don't know how to address an envelope or can't put a date in the calendar properly (I mean literally, like with the right floor number or proper cross streets).

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.

I'm public property, the public put me where I am. They own me.

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'

In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.

Nobody wants to marry a God. Once I become a human being, there will definitely be marriage proposals.

It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.

A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

College is a lot different than the pros.

The boos and critical words from sports writers affect pros more than anyone else.

I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'

I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.

What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for an ordinary woman to land a job if she lets prospective bosses know she is pregnant.

The family name hasn't fostered my prospects - ever.

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

Well, there are more job prospects after 'Love Island'.

Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.