One of the things I’ve tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I’m able to broaden people’s expectations of what I’m allowed to do. – Lauren Oliver
It’s pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst. – Lily James
Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don’t care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don’t seek acceptance. I don’t need to live up to anybody’s expectations. – Kangana Ranaut
Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president’s first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years. – John Mica
The sitcom’s traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. – Lee Siegel
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences. – Lawrence Kohlberg
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. – Robert Sternberg
Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. – Richard M. DeVos
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. – Sam Walton
I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like. – Pat Bowlen
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, ‘is it going to be wonderful enough?,’ it never will be. – Pepper Schwartz
Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India. – Richard Attenborough
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. – Orison Swett Marden
I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. – Sebastian Thrun
There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life. – Shawn Mendes
We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations. – Orrin Hatch
The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses. – Robert Luskin
Once you feel like you’re being dictated by other people’s expectations, it usually backfires. – Rob Zombie
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. – Rebecca Traister
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. – Ralph Marston
There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great. – Robert Dallek
The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations. – Pete Gallego
Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible. – Robert Fripp