Top 1200 High Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.

It is very important I live up to my own expectations as far as popularity and knowing that I left my mark on the sport.

Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.

I feel Arjun is one of the central characters of 'Mahabharata' and people have lots of expectations from me when I started working on the show.

We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.

I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.

I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

We all have expectations but sometimes the greatest thing is to be surprised with what happens and to find out that it is quite different from the way you imagined it.

How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

I like to think I have shown I am ready to live up to the expectations of being Everton's number nine.

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.

When 'Ye Maaya Chesaave' released, there were no expectations. With '100% Love,' I felt, 'Oh my God, it has to work.'

I like showing people I can do something they wouldn't have pegged me as being able to do. I've always wanted to defy expectations.

When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

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.

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

In 1999, I found myself the unlikely leader of a community-based effort to protect what was arguably Colorado's most important brand, and one once thought to be untouchable: the 'Mile High' part of Denver's Mile High Stadium.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

My main influence was my father. He was a great high school coach. I thought one day, if I got lucky, I could be a head high school coach.

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

The latter part of bull markets are typically led by stocks that are seen then as high quality, but the ones that do best are the ones that weren't seen as such high quality before.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country.

I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.

I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized, 'Oh, I like this. This is something I feel like I'm good at.' But, the idea of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor was really unrealistic.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

I can always spot an Australian queen by her high, high end wig. Australian drag queens have the best hair in the world - the best.

My belief is that a positive culture works best because people want to meet or exceed expectations, not demands.

There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capitalist.' But I'd said that I wanted a job that involved a lot of negotiation, a lot of yelling at people on the phone, and for it to be high-risk, high-reward.