Quotes About Expectations

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

We started the season off really hot, then we had some ups and downs. You can't have a season where it's perfect. It's what you want but in reality it's not going to happen all the time.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.

The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

Some roads were easier to leave than others. Many walked to seek the future, but found only the past. Others sought the past, to make it new once more, and discovered that the past was nothing like the one they'd imagined. One could walk in search of friends, and find naught but strangers. One could yearn for company but find little but cruel solitude.

If we could assemble our words, merge those inside and out, we would be startled to find that we speak but a tenth of what we think. And yet, each of us presumes to expect that the other understands – indeed, hears both the spoken and the unspoken. Mad presumption!

Soldiers have no imagination, meaning they're capable of vast surprises

The trust I have...for some people...comes down to how well I know them, and then it's a matter of my trusting them to do what I think they're going to do.