Quotes About Expectations

When the audience expects you to do a good job, you become more choosy. It becomes a responsibility.

I think I spent the first many years of Pinterest trying to be a really good leader, like what I thought a good leader should be.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

He who brings a style to a club that can't carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.

It's difficult to be both a good player and a good manager.

You want to be a good mother, and you want to be a good actress, and you want to be a good friend, and we expect this of us, to be all of this.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.

When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.

In 1981, when I passed out of Class 12, you could either become a doctor or an engineer. If you did not take up Science in Class 12, you were not considered a good student. The Arts were a no-no.

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

I think expectations are a good thing. As a player, you should embrace them and not shy away from them.

It was not a good thing in my family to be a 'personality.'

Standing out for being short is not actually a good thing as a model and it hasn't been a help.

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

The reality of our lives is never like what you see in those romantic comedies or dramas. Things don't always end good. Things don't usually end good.

When everything goes well, they say good things about the manager and when something is wrong it is normal as well the manager gets pressure.

I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.

As an actress, nobody is sure these days whether something is going to be successful or not. I tried to always have a good time on set because of that reason. Even if people didn't like it, at least you had a good time.

I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.

I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.

The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.