Quotes About Expectation

I thought 'Gutterflower' was a really good record, but the album before that got so big that everyone expected us to go through that again.

I don't know where people got that I didn't have a good relationship with my players. I'm demanding, yes; I'm on their butt. I expect 100%, but they all knew I loved them, I cared for them, and I'll always be there for them.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

I feel like 'The Last Jedi' is a lot of things that people aren't going to expect, which I think is a good thing.

Expectation is a good thing. I think it shows you're doing a lot of good stuff. Clearly, I'd rather it to be that way than people expecting it to be the other way.

The good thing about films is, you never know how good they will be. If there was a formula, there would only be good films!

I don't really expect anything to happen anyway; if I book a tour, I know it might not happen. I just think about the things that I have got. A lot of good things have happened to me too. It could always be worse.

We expected to have a good time with Clive Anderson 'cause I've always liked him, his shows.

The audience is expecting good work from me. They want me to do roles that are unique and important in the story. So, I am trying to focus on different characters to play. I am doing the kind of films which are completely different from each other.

Then at night, we could hardly sleep. This

The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb...

It's so easy to look and see what we pass through in this world, but we don't. If you're like me, you see so little. You see what you expect to see rather than what's there.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

That Congress saw what was right, but distrusted the enlightenment of the loyal masses; but what was forborne in distrust of the people must now be done with a full knowledge that the people expect and require it. The members go to Washington fresh from the inspiring presence of the people.

You will not get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

To put up with people, to keep open house with one's heart — that is liberal, but that is merely liberal. One recognizes those hearts which are capable of noble hospitality by the many draped windows and closed shutters, they keep their best rooms empty. Why? Because they expect guests with whom one does not put up.

Die Forderung, geliebt zu werden, ist die größte der Anmaßungen.

But a spirit who is sure of himself speaks softly; he seeks secrecy, he lets himself be awaited.

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.