Quotes About Expectation

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it's about, and you're often disappointed.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn't expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn't like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.

Once there was this Telugu film about a ghost. It sounded too hackneyed. 'Probably it will turn out fine,' I told myself and went ahead and... it was a disaster.

I have sung a couple of songs in Telugu and Hindi films, but I was not happy with that. So, I thought of doing an album. I do not know how people will react.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

Amber interrupted him. 'But you'll still hurt me afterwards, won't you?' she asked hopefully.

When you hear the Word of God at Sunday Mass, expect healing, expect that you will experience God's love, expect that God will move in your life to meet all your needs.

You have good days and bad days when you get to be my age," Finn said. "And you never can predict which it's going to be.

If you go in thinking you're going to win, you'll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you're going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.

John F. Kennedy that would begin to define him as a person and shape his future career choice. "To whom much is given, much is expected.

Tracy had always thought hope to be cruel, a tease that filled people with positive emotions, without any real basis.

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One thinks the worst even while clinging to hopes for the best.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

I always entertain great hopes.

There's people who'd expect you to take a bullet for them and they don't bother rememb'ring yuh name.

Strike looked down at his own plate: where there should have been chips, there was only salad.