Quotes About Expectations

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

To play at home, sometimes it goes against you in a Libertadores final.

Losing a cup final is massively disappointing, but you can accept it if you play to your potential.

You can be the best left back in the world, but if you play badly in the final, people will say you're the worst.

The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.

All the big clubs set their goals. We have to do that because it is necessary to explain to the fans. But this does not mean I am thinking only of the final results. The work you are doing every day with the team is often more important.

If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than win 30 and not go to the Final Four.

When everybody starts out in the process of 'The Voice,' you do think about the people who have won or that have made it to the finale and what happens.

I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it's always up to the person watching it.

My goal is to play better than my seed. If I'm seeded sixth, I want to try to go to the semifinals. If I'm seeded third, I'm going to shoot for the finals.

Living in the 'Bigg Boss' house is a roller-coaster ride. I didn't expect to reach the finals. But I was sure that I would be in the top five.

I was 21 when I made the the finals of Cincinnati and finished 20 in the world, and thought it was going to come pretty easy.

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.

I thought it'd be different. Kind of like, a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders, as I don't have to worry about finances for the rest of my life, or my family's. But it wasn't like that. It was more - there's things I need to get done.

Which girl doesn't see the bank balance of the guy she is marrying? Not only the girl - even her parents want her to marry a financially secure guy.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

My experience in Bollywood has been this: You work hard, you deliver, and nobody finds fault with you.

People point fingers at the leader. That happens in every sport.

We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!