Quotes About Expectation

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

Tomorrow never comes.

Better hope deferred than none.

Always give more than what's expected.

I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?

If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have not right to be.

In movies, everyone is always surprised the door is unlocked.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.