Quotes About Expectations

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

My mom is surely worried that the fact that I don't have a college degree will impact my chances of finding a bride.

I'm always worried about overhype. I love underhype.

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

I've never been worried about being alone and there is no pressure to get married, although I would love to do it one day with the right girl.

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'

I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

I feel like I've built up this persona of always being positive and always being happy, and I worried if my audience sees me not in that light, will they think less of me? Will they discredit me? Will I just be nothing?

When you bring in a player with a big reputation for a big fee, and he's coming from a different championship, and it starts badly, then you can be worried - we had an example of that with Andriy Shevchenko.

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.

Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

There are some songs where you're like, 'I really like this song,' and it just didn't work out how you thought it would. That's life. You win some, you lose some. You can't dwell on it. I can't be worried about the past.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.