Quotes About Expectation

It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.

I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I froze. But then I killed it.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

We have a very old saying in our household: 'Inspect what you expect.' You hold people accountable, and I use my business background for finding the most efficient and effective solutions to deliver the result we're looking for.

Heavy handedness and entitlement goody bags are no way to solve our immigration and border crisis, but I've learned to expect almost nothing from the dimwits in power who feel entitled to take everything.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

There are some people who feel that they deserve a particular award or recognition, but I don't fall in that category.

When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

I want somebody to push me and grill me and extract a performance out of me which nobody expects.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

I can't get into specifics. Someday, hopefully, I'll be able to.

Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.

I kind of thought eventually, someday, somehow, I would be Hall of Fame, whether it was nWo, DX, or whatever, and honestly, I thought it would probably happen when I was no longer around.

When I started my recording career, I hoped that someday the Grammy committee would notice something.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.