Quotes About Expectation

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.

I didn't know what it would be like being on 'X Factor' with my husband. It's surpassed everything I could have expected.

Hype is scary.

I am not looking or thinking that every move of mine will generate mass hysteria.

Every line expects to do big things when they're on the ice.

I've got my fair share of appreciation, and I've definitely grown as an actor, but I never expected to be an icon.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.

When you meet your idols, I'm not one of those people - like if I saw Prince on the street, I wouldn't say anything. Because I'd want him to meet me. You want to meet people on the right terms or if there's a reason for you to meet.

I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off a cliff now.

My dad tells me to ignore any expectation.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine.

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

I've tired of looking into the future, imagining all the things I want to have.