Quotes by Expectations If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court. Daphne Oz creatingexpectationstrying Hope for everything, expect nothing. Darren Criss hopeexpectationsmotivational I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations. Darynda Jones expectationsactionopportunity I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me. Daunte Culpepper usepressureexpectations You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist. Dave Eggers magazinesexpectationsmight Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. Dave Eggers expectationslittlespeople Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day. Dave Thomas hamburgersgoalexpectations When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside. Dave Ulrich organizationleaderexpectations But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. David Baldacci ableexpectationswriting If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure. David Bezmozgis expectationsbookthinking The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry. David Duchovny trustkeysexpectations Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well. David Eagleman expectationsbrainjobs Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature. David Fontana essenceexpectationsreality Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong. David Graeber partydoneexpectations The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show. David Gilmour differentartistexpectations I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. David Guterson successfulexpectationsbook Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. David Hume understandingexpectationsmay All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. David Kim assumptionflowexpectations Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. David Foster Wallace talentexpectationsforever The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. David Knopfler punishmentexpectationsschool«1314151617181920212223»
