Quotes About Expectations

It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

I don't want to be a player that signs a long-term deal and towards the end is resented, either by the fan base, by the organization, or on my end for having my performance slip below what my contract dictates.

People tell me I have to follow in the footsteps of my mom and grandfather, but it's a lot of pressure. I can't really slip up and mess up the name.

I don't feel pressure. I do feel like if someone can see me slip up, you know, they would love it because it would complete the family craziness.

I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.

When you lose games against Slovakia and England, you're going to get the criticism that goes with it.

With 'Girls,' Marnie was a slow burn; she shifted over time. With 'Get Out,' I was suddenly faced with the pressure that, like, I need an audience to know Rose deeply within 15 minutes, within a couple scenes. And that's not something I've ever done before.

When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

My competitors won't be thinking, 'Oh, she's only 18, let's go a little slower for her.'

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.

What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist.

I think everyone expects if you're in the lead, or if you're a favourite to win, you will win, and if you don't, then you're in a slump. It's not the case.

I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk into Kansas City and put up the worst football game of my existence. And I've always been this brash, arrogant kind of guy.

Uruguay is a small country but with a lot of football history. We've won so many things, and so the people are always expecting us to do good things.

Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a company, doing a lead role one week, a small part the next. That's what I thought I was going to be.

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.