Top 1200 Low Expectations Quotes & Sayings

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.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating

One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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

GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.

Mum was on benefits for a few years. Then I failed the 11-plus and I went to the secondary modern. And that was hard because the expectations were so low in the school.

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

The soft bigotry of low expectations

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way. Low expectations reap great rewards.

There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.

I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything.

One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society.

I'm the master of low expectations.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

No one rises to low expectations

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

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

I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations

Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

China should have a currency which is a much higher value relative to the dollar and other things. What they're doing is keeping it low, artificially low. And I mean seriously artificial. I don't just mean a little bit low. I mean major low.

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

The challenge we face as a government is meeting expectations - not specific expectations, but the larger expectations: things that need to be changed and that Narendra Modi will do it as though he has a magic wand.

I am used to the low expectations people have of me: I have a bubbly personality, I smile a lot; I am very feminine.

There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources. We have to nurture those gifts more.

People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.

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.

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.

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very fixed, given who I am in the world. People have certain expectations of me as an artist.

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

We had a bunch of models for user adoption of Robinhood Gold. The data team had some silly names for a range of adoption levels: 'Mediocre expectations,' 'middle-of-the-road expectations' and 'great expectations.' The numbers we ended up with were significantly higher than 'great expectations.'

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

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled.

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'