Quotes About Expectations

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

In a team situation, I think the players are more inclined to give the answer they believe the psychologist is looking for rather than maybe being totally honest.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

I hated being a public company CEO.

When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.

I grew up in the public eye from the age of 15 and it wasn't a choice I made, it just kind of got imposed on me because of who my dad is.

No relationship is easier just because you're in the public eye.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

Growing up, my dad was a pastor, and much like The First Family or people in front of the public eye, we were highly scrutinized as a family within the church and looked at as - well, I guess you would call an example of what that family image should be.

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.

In public, when my kids have not been behaving great - because that's life, my kids are not perfect, okay - I've noticed other people watching me. And I felt judged, because I'm obviously in the public eye. So that's been hard.

We're just actors, man, just part of things. We're just doing our jobs, like everyone else does their jobs. The adulation for us is much more because we are always in the public eye. But I never became an actor because I wanted people to scream out my name.

It's hard being in the public eye.

Being in the public eye, especially, can be hard sometimes. It's kind of like anything you do is... if you make any mistake... It can definitely be overwhelming sometimes.

It's not an easy matter to grow up in the public eye.

Fame is not all it's cracked up to be, and I felt self-conscious in the public eye.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

What I've learned is that living in public life... it's impossible to have everybody like you. No matter what you do.

When I went into this, I knew that public life was going to be a very weird, fantastic and cruel sort of situation to be in. I think I'm ready for any lumps to come.

If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.