Quotes About Expectation

People - myself included - expect a certain standard from me. I always have to elaborate or improve on my playing. My success hasn't made me at all laid-back. That relentless drive is still there.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint.

I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of 100 ways to ask him. Finally, three weeks before the book hit the stands I went to pop the question and forgot everything I rehearsed.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

No man can lose what he never had.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.