Top 1200 High Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

I am not worried about people's expectations. I just want to get the film right.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

Just getting to the NFC Championship isn't good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.

I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

The NCAA model is outdated. If Steve Serby's a great player in high school, and an agent wants to represent you and wants to advance you money as a loan based on the fact that you're gonna be a high draft choice, so be it.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

I've always said my expectations are higher than what anyone else could put on me.

Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

I have no choice but give my best, even if it is a small role. There are a lot of expectations from the family and industry.

The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

It's important that we challenge the culture of low expectations. You need to believe every child can do well.

We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew in high school and I was battling. I also took ballet most of my life until high school.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

Jaylen's a high achiever. You can be a high achiever in every which way. He's a guy that - we've talked about several times - is gonna do bigger things off the court than on it, and he's a special player on it.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

I would say that the pivotal moment in singing for me was my sophomore year in high school, 'cause I always loved music but, even going into high school, I didn't know I wanted to make this my career.

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.

Something you're aware of being a quarterback coming here-you have expectations, and you want to live up to those.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.

There's always a high school jerk, isn't there? But I didn't date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls' private school for ten years.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

I've seen some amazing independent wrestling shows. I've seen high quality matches, I've seen high level talent.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

It doesn't matter what you're hitting - if you're not living up to your own expectations, then it's hard to have fun.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

In London, there must be thousands of people in the business of making films, whereas in Nottingham or Sheffield, you're probably talking about below a hundred. So there aren't thousands of people scrapping for the same money and for the same jobs. I went out in Nottingham the other night and there's a really beautiful community of people who are really supportive. It's not this back-stabbing thing, high-rent, high-cost, high-tension. Up here we are independent filmmakers and there's a lovely sense of camaraderie.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.