Top 1059 Expectation Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness.
As a director, I was apprehensive about the outcome of 'Kick.' As it scored well, it is my duty to get above that expectation.
Nobody puts more expectation on me than myself. That's just the heart of the competitor. That's how I was raised.
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?
When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of thinking. You have to be willing to be frustrated constantly.
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.
Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!'
Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it, it falls below your expectation.
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.
The expectation at United is to win every game and you have to be at your very best in training, never mind in the games.
No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
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.
I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.
That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
When you are getting to No. 1 you're always chasing a dream. And then when you're there your focus changes because the expectation to defend that title is massive.
My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.
It's really great to hear that people do look at us as role models and we hope we are able to live up to that expectation as well.
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
It's more responsibility for star kids. Instead of having things easy, expectation is higher. They are compared to their parents, and that's unfair.
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.
The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up.
I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.
The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.
Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.
Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.
There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.
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.
