Quotes About Expectation

From now on, we want to put on even cooler performances, be cooler, be better, so look forward to it. Please, always look forward to it.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

I came to Munich full of confidence, with plenty of energy, and really looking forward to it, in a way I don't think I'd had in my career before.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, 'Well, clearly this show will have an audience; why wouldn't it?' And for whatever reason, it just doesn't catch on. So you never know going in.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.

To know you are going to run out on the pitch on a Saturday is a big plus.

We have to get out of the mindset that, 'If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.'

Finishing on the podium in my first year, I never expected that. It just fell into place.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

Being at United, you always get quite disappointed if you don't get all three points, as you believe you can go into every single game and win it.

'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very complex narrative from all these different points of view.

I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

People, when they sent me to Cleveland, what they expected was for Shawn to go to Cleveland and us to lose, you know what I'm saying? It's not going to happen.