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Quotes About Expectations

I always get told by women that they would love a daughter-in-law like me. That's big, because not too many people seem to want their son to marry an actress!
~ Aishwarya Rajesh
I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.
~ Stipe Miocic
I've always tried to stay away from doing remixes to songs that were popular, because too many people do that. But that's something the fans want to hear, me over those type of beats. So I do it for them.
~ Joyner Lucas
Too many people say they want someone extraordinary in their lives but they aren't extraordinary themselves.
~ Matthew Hussey
At the first Mae Young Classic, I was just trying to make everyone happy, I was just trying to do my job and I was listening to too many people at once.
~ Rhea Ripley
A good thing for footballers is not to think too much, especially when you've got to move to a big team like Liverpool, because that's when you start to confuse your mind.
~ Sadio Mane
I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.
~ Florence Pugh
I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they put it on themselves and listen to the outside stuff. I have great teammates and great coaches that do the right things around me that allows me to just focus on the game of football.
~ Dak Prescott
People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
~ Jack Ma
The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.
~ Helen Thomas
People don't mind you feeling low if you are still performing. But if you've shared too much, and suddenly your performance dips, that's when they start doubting you.
~ Gianluigi Buffon
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
~ Kaki King
Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
~ Roger Goodell
You put pressure on yourself to go out and do better. And when you try to do too much, and you're thinking about it too much, it can throw your game off.
~ Robert Horry
When I started to be a coach, I expected a lot - maybe too much - in terms of physical approach, tactics, and technique. There was too little emphasis on human relationships.
~ Manuel Pellegrini
People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
A lot of people talk about records, but you can get lost as a player if you think too much about them.
~ Ada Hegerberg
I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
~ Julia Leigh
Partners and mothers allow men to get away with too much.
~ Lennie James
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
~ Felix Dennis
Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.
~ Walter Matthau
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.
~ Iyanla Vanzant