Top 1200 Hopes And Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Have rational expectations for future returns and avoid changing those expectations in response to the ephemeral noise coming from Wall Street.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

People who come to see me have expectations. If I don't live up to those expectations, I'd be a failure.

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

You have expectations always when you buy players. Mostly, you have positive expectations.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

I know a lot of people try and set expectations for me. No offense to you guys, but I set my own expectations.

The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

As a captain, I am concerned about my team and how I perform. I have hopes from my own self and very high hopes from my team members.

I am satisfied with my achievements in terms of both development and welfare. I have not only lived up to most of the expectations of people, but also surpassed some of their expectations.

Living up to people's expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations.

We are grateful, as artists, as individuals, that people have such big expectations of us, and we are ready to take on the burden that comes with the expectations.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.

I think all of us as NBA players have expectations of ourselves that are different from expectations from external forces and sources.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

When I went, I hadn't had very much time to have hopes or expectations. I knew very little about Nashville, and I think that was probably good. When I was there, I got really lucky - I ended up with people that just were amazing musicians, and that's the Nashville that I experienced. That is a big part of Nashville - there's a lot of musicians, and that makes it a very special place and shapes the city.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

I've exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.

Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

I still work that expectation/disappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the most important thing is not to judge it. We are human and we do have expectations and a lot of our expectations are often not met. It is a process of learning how to be kind and compassionate and loving to ourselves when we don't get the things we want when people, circumstances, and opportunities don't match our expectations.

I went into NXT with no expectations. That's what I was told when I was hired - have no expectations, just do the best I could - and that's always what I've done for the last fifteen years. That's what I did, and you know, it's obviously working out pretty good.

If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

We have high expectations at West Virginia University for success on and off the field and as Coach Holgorsen has acknowledged to me, we are not meeting those expectations on the field.

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.

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

We don't use the term 'big data' - not on our website, not with customers. Saying it sets up expectations, the wrong expectations.

A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

The pressure and hype is created by the media. Of course, expectations are there and we cannot stop that nor change yourself for expectations. We just continue making films.

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

There is no one with higher expectations of me than myself. I cannot control other's expectations.

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.