Quotes About Expectation

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions.

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

Everything takes meticulous planning and nothing works out the way it's supposed to.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.