Top 1200 High Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You must have high ambitions and high ambitions scare small-minded people.

I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

My first year of high school, I attended Duval High, home of the Duval Tigers. It's located in one of most notorious neighborhoods in the Prince George's County, Maryland, area.

The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

Very few countries grow at high rate if inflation is high and volatile. I think, in a way, we are doing our bit to support a higher growth rate, but on a durable basis.

High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.

Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

Entering into the flow of abundance begins when exceeding expectations becomes a way of life.

If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.

I'm not perfect, I just do what I think is right. So if I can't fulfil people's expectations, I'm sorry, but it's not my fault.

Fans always have an opinion of their own. We only try to live up to their expectations.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases, there is a high proportion of men that are of Pakistani heritage.

high school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet

I do believe in high, high intensity. I don't believe that there's anytime while I'm on the floor that I should be sitting down catching my breath; that doesn't make sense. There's plenty of time to rest when I'm done.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.

My expectations are to establish my dominance and kick butt. And I want to become a leader in the sport.

There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.

The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

All I can say is that I will always try my best to work on the expectations that people have from me.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.