Quotes About Expectation

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

I'm probably one of the best players in the world and there should be expectation when you're in contention to be able to continue to play well in that situation.

Nobody will write in your contract that you have the assurance to play.

I guess if I get a little weird about something that isn't the way I want it, and I complain, then it's called controlling.

I never really expected to be controversial.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

No one will be hurt if I don't come to conventions.

I am not at all convinced by Pogba. He plays a lot in England - it's true - but I expected a lot more from him.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I don't hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more.

I think it's cool that people care so much where I'm going to end up or what I'm going to do.

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

When you become the manager of a leading club, there are so many situations you have to cope with. You have to deal with the people in charge of the club, the players, the media, the expectation... you have to deal with the whole environment around the club, and that is something you can find difficult.

You have to cope with expectation if you want to play for England.

We don't know what's around the corner.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.

You can never be sure what is around the corner.

What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?'

You never know what's around the corner.

What's around the corner is always more exciting than the corner that I'm on, unfortunately.

I think from doing so many live shows it gives you a real appreciation of being present. You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know what is around the corner.

Listen, there's always a pitfall around the corner somewhere. You know it's coming, you don't know when it's going to come.

You never know what's coming round the corner.