Quotes About Expectation

I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?

Every team believes they are better after the transfer window.

I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

In my time, if your performance was good, you would get the award. It would be a nail-biting experience. We would always be curious whether our name would be announced as the winner.

I know some people expected me to be a Ballon d'Or winner.

I think that Hardeep Singh Kohli is the winner of 'MasterChef' that never was.

Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity, and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation? Meanwhile, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences hides behind the 'peer' voting system to escape culpability for not even rethinking its approach.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

You always work toward a big goal. Once you achieved it, it's not that easy. You need a few days. Like winning the Champions League - season over, goal achieved. The pressure drops.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

It will never be much fun until a Proteas team finally goes out and wins one of these ICC limited-overs tournaments. That will happen one day.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

The weight of expectation is huge. But for me, that pressure has been outweighed by getting text messages from mums I know saying how huge it is for their mixed-race daughters that I am playing Hermione.

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

I auditioned for 'Westworld' thinking it was gonna be a knock-off spoof. Thank God I didn't know Anthony Hopkins was starring in it.

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.