Quotes About Expectations

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.

I thought I had joined one of the best clubs in the world, one of the biggest names around, and I had, though within a few years, it became clear that I had arrived at one of the worst moments in Liverpool's whole history.

America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.

When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

When I left the U.S., I sort of left that frustration and that pressure to make the national team behind me.

I don't put any extra pressure on myself for national team games.

I have played for the national team many times, so I am used to good things - and bad things - being said about me.

I will only be 29 in 2016 for the European Championships, but the French national team doesn't make me happy.

It's not always easy to come to the national team and be on the bench.

Of course there's going to be expectations when you're playing well in the national team. But you just have to deal with that.

It is hard to enjoy life in a national team.

When you come in with the national team, there's an adjustment period. Sometimes you don't have time to adjust.

At one point, I asked myself whether I was having fun with the national team, or whether I was just out to convince critics.

I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

If you don't do it the way coaches ask you to do something, and someone else does it the way it's supposed to be done, that's just natural life.

Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in the United States and many states in Europe during a new age of mounting scarcity, declining wages, joblessness, government-imposed "austerity" measures, and assaults on civil liberties. The rising living standards experienced by the American working class in the 1950s have been in precipitous decline since the 1970s.

And one of the biggest things I still can't get over is that even when I'm doing something right, I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. I always have that feeling that it's not good enough. That I'm not good enough.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?