Quotes About Expectation

I feel you gotta be nervous. If you're nervous, it's just 'cause you want to do well, it's not 'cause you're scared.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.

Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly - not what you expect in a western.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

I am really excited to act with a powerhouse of talent like Vijay Deverakonda.

It's a dream to play for England, so if I'm selected, I'd look forward to playing. But it's down to the powers above me.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

There was never a push for us to become more practical... Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

Practice does make perfect and when you know what's asked of you by your manager and when he demands it you do it.

If we want equality, we shouldn't then expect to be praised just because we're doing a certain job. That's not equality.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.

I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.

I go for actors who do precisely what is expected of them.

The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.

What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

You can't really predict what the fans love.