Quotes About Expectations

No lo haces de forma intencionada, son las circunstancias las que te empujan a ello, pues quieres demasiado a Amalia y deseas verla superior a todas las demás; pero al no hallar nada suficientemente elogiable en la propia Amalia para justificar ese pedestal, rebajas a las demás mujeres para lograr tus propósitos.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

Season 1 of CTV's 'The Launch' exceeded our wildest expectations!

My family had never in their wildest dream thought I would get married.

When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don't care about soccer and this and that. But the way people cared was beyond my wildest expectations. You can't manufacture that.

The platform Miss Universe has given me has exceeded my wildest expectations.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.

For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Initially I thought: 'I would never get cast opposite Will Smith! No one would ever buy it with the age difference, our personalities.' I can't think of a couple that makes less sense in every way, shape and form.

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

I think it's no accident that a number of coaches and personnel guys have come out of William and Mary. To me, it's a credit to the type of program Coach Laycock runs. There are set rules, there is clarity when it comes to expectations. You're expected to go to class and be a student-athlete. There are no cutting corners.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

I know I have a lot of expectations to live up to, which I need to do and am willing to do.

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.