Quotes About Expectations

You're judged on Super Bowls, and that's the standard.

No. You can't do that. We won't let you go to Bollywood... ' This is the standard reaction of small town, middle class parents whenever their child expresses his or her desire to join the film industry.

If you look at women in sports, they generally have to be more qualified because it is kind of a man's world. Guys will give guys a lot more breaks than a woman. I'd argue that women make fewer mistakes and are held to a higher standard. I think the ultimate respect you can pay to a woman in my business is you're my equal.

We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if they are good enough, songs get their way in.

I do have impossibly high standards.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.

If I'm demanding and have high standards, I'm happy about that.

It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?

When you lose for the All Blacks it's not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards and we know if we've let ourselves or let the jersey down.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

As women, I think we lower our standards of what we expect of ourselves. Don't just stay at home and do jumping jacks and leave the gym space to the gym. You have every right to be in the gym - for your health, and so you've got energy for your kids.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

I have extremely high standards.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.