Quotes About Expectation

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I'm kind of off modern wrestling. I want somebody to step up and impress me.

You need to ensure you are ready and impress when called upon.

I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

After watching Benson Henderson's performance against Gilbert Melendez, I must say, I wasn't impressed.

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.

People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that have left. In the end they might be better but in the beginning they might be worse. Because they all have to gel and get to know each other and get to know you.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

The more you play, the more people's expectation increases.

When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured.

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.

I do believe every artwork has its own charisma. Sometimes it's different from what I expect. When a work is finished, it exudes its own charisma and lives its life independently.