Quotes About Expectations

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling rack on Seventh Avenue.

Being a beauty queen was never on my radar.

The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

So many of these former child actors and actresses seem to go off the rails.

I'm not sure if fans are ready to accept my music, but I no longer wanted to be known as a 15-year-old girl who would sing 'Over the Rainbow.'

They sell you this present of rainbows and butterflies, and as a 16-year-old, that's what I bought. It's why I did 'X Factor' and why I ended up in a group. But then you're working so hard, so young.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.

Point-blank, I don't want to raise a family in baseball. Maybe I just want to be normal.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.