Quotes About Expectations

When I started my career, I always had the confidence that I would one day make it, but I never imagined that I would reach the heights at which the public has placed me.

I'm proud to have represented England in four World Cups but it was hugely frustrating that we never reached a semi-final or played to our ability.

I have missed meetings because a Speed Post from a government office reached after the meeting. But these are rare blips in a large network.

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

I have to constantly be doing something; otherwise, I don't feel like I'm reaching the level that I should be.

Of all the things that can frustrate a guitarist the most, it's the nagging feeling that he's not reaching a certain level of proficiency as quickly as he should.

As a child you dream of playing for your country, but when it really happens you do not know how to react.

The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care.

To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you... who's to say how any of us would deal with that.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

It's when I'm playing a headline show I feel weird, 'cause I don't know how to react to people coming out to see me.

I feel amused when women in Indian films are unfailingly shown screaming at their kith and kin who are involved in nefarious activities. Please, let's get real! How can a woman react so dramatically to something that has been happening under her nose ever since her marriage?

I had high hopes for 'Moonlight,' just off the reaction I had while reading the script.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

I don't tend to go into any job thinking about the audience reaction.

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.