Quotes About Expectations

I think you can do that specifically with players - you can be tough on them, expect a lot from them, but not be somebody they despise.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

A lot of times, the spectacular play the fans see is not always what I tried to do. It just happens.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

The NCAA game, the first one that I was on, I was rated a 46 with 37 speed. It was a slap in the face. I knew deep down in my heart I was better than a 46.

In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.

I'm more on the bigger side, so people don't think I have speed. I'm not the fastest guy, but I guarantee I'm not the slowest.

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

It is one thing being scrutinised for playing a bad shot as a batsman or bowling a bad spell as a bowler, but the captaincy adds an extra dimension. The criticism is slightly harder to take.

My first loan spell I was 18. I went to Crewe, and I felt I'd scored all these goals for Liverpool's youth teams and I'd go to League One and it would be the same. I quickly found out that it wasn't. It took me to come back, captain the U23 side for a year and a half to really get my confidence back.

I played under Mourinho and went through good and bad spells with him. You could be playing a game and he has it in him to drag you off after half an hour and then he won't talk to you. And that can kill a player.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline.

After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months thinking about that and not making any music.

For me, I spent four years at Duke, and I was 22 my rookie year. For a lot of guys, I was old as a rookie, but nothing could prepare me for the NBA, both on the court and off the court.

I never thought a film about a sperm donor could work with audiences in India, but it did.

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.