Quotes About Expectations

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.

I wasn't happy the way I completed 'Asuran' or abandoned the film as it isn't complete. People are liking it and it's making money and I'm glad but I'm not happy with how I had to finish it.

I'm so glad I got an opportunity to meet Shawn Michaels, because he didn't let any of my expectations down. He's the coolest guy ever.

I demand a lot and we look to improve, but I'm glad that Atleti are expected to be among the best every year.

I thought I wanted to be a machinist. I thought that was the most glamorous job in the world.

In America, funny women are allowed to be glamorous and funny, but over here, you're not.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

As a kid, we got a lot of American shows - usually a New York or L.A.-based show full of glitz and glamour - and I assumed that that was what life was like in the U.S. So, when I was 17, I decided to go to America.

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

I have this demure, girl-next-door image and audiences will not accept me in glamour roles.

Four More Shots' is high on the glamour quotient and has perfect looking women. But to constantly look perfect is quite exhausting.

I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.

My dad wants me to do action. Every time I go home, he asks me if I'm doing an action film or not, because then he wants us to do it together.

If the car is capable of finishing eighth, then I want to get the most out of the car and put it eighth. If the car is only capable of finishing 13th to start the year, then that has to be our goal.

My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

Any goalkeeper that's going to play for Liverpool is going to be looked at and scrutinised - every shot, everything about it is going to be scrutinised.

I know the pressure of being Barcelona's goalkeeper, but I'm here to play my football and the football Barca want to play. I'm not afraid.

As a goalkeeper if you concede two goals at the end of the game you never can be happy.

I never say I want to score 15 or 20 goals.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don't do anything different. You just keep working to get better.