Quotes About Expectations

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take.

Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

Our expectations of greatness and the American spirit are being systematically dismantled.

When you have been coached by Ancelotti and other greats, it's hard to be coached by Domenech!

When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'

Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia.

When I first got started, I used to say I just want to stay in the studio, I want to make good music, I want to sing my heart out, and I didn't think I'd have people following me to a grocery store or following me home or stuff like that.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

When you meet someone, of course you want it to last forever. It'd be very depressing if you didn't feel that way. But things change, and you maybe grow apart. You have to accept that.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

When you grow up a Matthews, other Matthews are always telling you what you're doing wrong.

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.

It was so strange because I thought Washington was going to be so grown-up, and everyone was going to be so nice. Then people were saying to me, 'Watch your back in D.C.' Why? Really? I have to watch my back in D.C?

We had to think about what the fans and the public would want to see from a grown-up 2PM.

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

I've experienced that, I think everyone who grows up a male experiences this idea of what it's supposed to mean to become a man from a boy.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.