Quotes About Expectation

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

Being part of 'Game of Thrones,' you're always expecting your character to die. You're not mentally preparing yourself for a very long haul.

I feel like we have these tough years preparing for this great season of life and I feel like 2019 will be that.

I've started most of the time I've been in a Knick jersey, so I just think they want me to bring a certain energy every night. They want me to bring that defensive presence because they know I can make something out of nothing on defense, and I think they just want me to bring that defensive presence every day.

I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

You always look forward to the start of the regular season. It's like opening presents on Christmas morning.

The president is expected to follow the rules just like everybody else.

I have no wish to go back to being frustrated by a character. It's really just part of being on an ongoing series. You're constantly hoping the next episode you get, something will happen for you. You're on the edge of your seat all the time, pressing your hands together and hoping that something cool will turn up.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?