Quotes About Expectation

Sometimes you think that a reconstruction project can be done more quickly than you expected.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

A lot of times in a record company environment, it's, 'All right, go out on the road, go get some experience, come back in six months, and we'll see where we are.' I've erased that. Now it's, 'This is what we're working on today. I expect you to come in tomorrow and address this and be better.'

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'

The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.'

I know a lot of people who make records, and when you meet them, it's not their personality or they're not what you're expecting. But El-P is exactly what you'd expect.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

No one looks forward to a recount.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

Not one person has ever sent me a drink because I was Caroline in 'Nick and Norah.' People reference it; people say really nice things about it, but I was sure I would be getting more free drinks.

I've got a body of work now, I've been doing movies for 32 years, and you never know which movie it is that somebody might reference to you, so you've got to be ready for everything.

I play with a lot of guys who say they're a five handicap, and they shoot 110. And then you play with guys who say they are a 20 and they shoot 75.

Acting is a career, and you can't expect everything to work out the way you want. One has to be mature enough to handle that.

I have handled pressure and expectation all through my life. I am not scared of it.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

What's so cool about 'Light of the Seven' - and what I love about 'Game of Thrones' - is you never know what's going to happen.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.