People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
~By Candice Bergen ~
All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.
~By Bruce Bennett ~
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
~By Max Lucado ~
The biggest problems with movies are expectations.
~By Frank Oz ~
We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
~By Bruce Lee ~
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
~By Edward de Bono ~
The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
~By Olivia Goldsmith ~
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
~By Joan Chen ~
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
~By Mary Douglas ~
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
~By Pat Mastelotto ~
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
~By Robert Fripp ~
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
~By Jack Levine ~
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
~By William Congreve ~
When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.
~By Joel Coen ~
So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
~By Johnny Bench ~
We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
~By Linda Tripp ~
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
~By Horace ~
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
~By William Scott ~
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
~By Shana Alexander ~
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
~By Robert South ~
There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
~By Steven Squyres ~
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
~By George Boole ~
Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.
~By James Sullivan ~
I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.
~By Vinny Testaverde ~
Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.
~By Thomas J. Sargent ~
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
~By Martin Short ~
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
~By Linda Tripp ~
Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.
~By Robert Fripp ~
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
~By David Knopfler ~
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
~By James L. Buckley ~
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
~By Anthony Hitt ~
So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
~By Pat Boone ~
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
~By Morris Dees ~
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
~By Nora Roberts ~
I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.
~By Kim Novak ~
Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.
~By Matthew Hayden ~
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
~By Ken Burns ~
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
~By Steve Case ~
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
~By Anne Lamott ~
I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
~By James D'arcy ~
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
~By Richard M. DeVos ~
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
~By Paul Rand ~
We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
~By Patricia Neal ~
I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.
~By Joel Siegel ~
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
~By Chris Cannon ~
I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
~By Edith Evans ~
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
~By Fritz Perls ~
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
~By Michael Jordan ~
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
~By Ryunosuke Satoro ~
I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
~By Christopher Walken ~
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
~By Stevie Wonder ~
I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
~By Elisabeth Shue ~
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
~By Joan Didion ~
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
~By Alan Dundes ~
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.
~By Franklin Raines ~
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
~By Famke Janssen ~
I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.
~By Trent Dilfer ~
It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress.
~By Pamela Anderson ~
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
~By Donna Tartt ~
A desert is a place without expectation.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
~By Daniel Johns ~
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
~By William Shakespeare ~
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
~By Kathy Acker ~
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
~By Amy Tan ~
The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
~By John M. Ford ~
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