Quotes About Expectation

It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

With cinema it's a different ballgame, you really don't know how the audience will react, so one has to tread carefully.

I've had people come stand in front of the treadmill and wait for me to acknowledge their presence so they can speak.

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.

People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

Some scenes cry out for a certain kind of treatment. The kind we're conditioned by years of film-watching to expect.

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

I didn't climb into that tree expecting to become a spokesperson.