Quotes About Expectation

Écrire ainsi me remplit à nouveau d'attente, d'envie de lui. Entretient le désir. François Mitterrand : « La jeunesse, c'est le temps qu'on a devant soi. »

L'avenir est trop immense pour qu'elle l'imagine, il arrivera, c'est tout

The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday.

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen."

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

All of us are professionals and no player wants not to play.

People expect because it is called 'Friends' that everyone was great friends, but they were real professionals.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

When I was on 'Mad TV,' I figured my parents were watching, and that was it. It wasn't 'Saturday Night Live,' so it didn't really have the same high profile.

When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

My investors expect me to maximize profits.

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.