Quotes About Expectations

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Success in one role can't justify failure in another.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good

Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.