Quotes About Expectations

It is a burden that people have expectations about me.

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

I don't want the burden of the success or failure of a film entirely on my shoulders.

We are grateful, as artists, as individuals, that people have such big expectations of us, and we are ready to take on the burden that comes with the expectations.

Nobody is ready to burn money just because you have a filmi lineage.

I always believed that the bubble could burst tomorrow. You're only as good as your last record.

My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.

You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

I don't want to be a bust.

If you're out there, and you can't do it, that makes you a bust. Well, I was never really out there. I was never Greg Oden in the NBA.

I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

I had a really strange period in my early 20s with the industry, and not succeeding the way I wanted to, and I put a lot of pressure on myself.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

Success is something good, and something bad. I don't know if it's good to always go after success.

Success is measured differently by different people.