Quotes About Expectations

Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.

My fears are never about failure - it's about extreme success.

I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

Obviously, it's disappointing when you put on a shirt and get negative feedback, but at the same time, it's what the fans want to see; they want to see you perform well.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

I feel like I fell short in Rio.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I am used to the low expectations people have of me: I have a bubbly personality, I smile a lot; I am very feminine.

If you're told to 'Man up,' you're essentially being told that being feminine is lesser.

I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, 'Ooh, that's a pretty little girl.' They would talk about my eyelashes or that I was sensitive or that I was crying all the time. I didn't want to play in the dirt outside with the boys.

I remember growing up wanting to play with the boundaries of what was considered 'feminine' and 'masculine' clothing, but feeling like I couldn't or shouldn't for whatever reason.

I often feel failed by feminism.

For a driver in a Ferrari, anyway it is a lot of pressure, especially if you are a rookie.

Ferrari is very political, at Ferrari everything is difficult. So if you win you have a lot of pressure and if you don't win you have even more.

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.

When you have a billion dollar show, there's a few people that have their hands out.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

I can't control what people think of me. I can't control any of that. I can only control what I do on the field.