Quotes About Expectation

We think that by seeking pleasure we'll avoid suffering. But this doesn't work.

When things are going well, everyone's coming into training, having a lot of banter and joking about and enjoying things, and when you are not, it's not that feeling, because the expectation level is to win.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would expect. One would think that extreme wariness and caution would be the order of the day, but, in fact, childish trust and impetuosity are far more common.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.

People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between where you're waiting for the phone to ring, or you're waiting to hear about things.

I started to think I could do just as much by playing basketball and setting a good sporting example than I could by going on the mission. But in the end I realized the mission was what was expected of me and was what would be better for me in the end.

I thought 'Thor' would just be fun.

I don't know what the fans expect out of these fighters, but I know what I expect out of myself. And that's go out there, beat people up, and just be me.

You don't know what's going to happen to you in the next hour. So you just live your life, live to the best of your potential, and just be happy.

I always thought when I left medicine it would just be a one-year timeout and I'd go back, but that's now turned into many more.

I think in coaching you just expect it to end at some point by being let go or by being fired. It's just kind of the nature of the business, so I've never really focused on that. I'm just trying to focus on doing the job as well as I can.

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

There's just something about BJ Penn that gets people amped up. You don't know what's going to happen but something is going to happen. He might disappoint you, make you happy, make you cry or make you jump out of your chair, but he'll do something to you.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

I believed Justin Trudeau in 2015. I thought he would be a climate leader. I was wrong.

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.

I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.

There's lots of people I'd be keen to see doing things, someone like Jack Dee.

I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.