The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. – Sally Ride
I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I’m making ‘The Blair Witch Project’ – something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people. – Ryan Gosling
I’m a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself. – Rachel Zoe
I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It’s a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations. – Ralph Fiennes
I don’t think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I’m frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy. – Robert Crais
I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we’re expected to march in a straight line, and when we don’t, all hell breaks loose. – Roxane Gay
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations. – Q-Tip
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you’re young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you’re gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations. – Sebastian Junger
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. – Patricia Neal
People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don’t do this and don’t do that. But it’s hard to live up to some people’s expectations. – Rodney King
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London. – Shawn Johnson
The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations. – Roy H. Williams
Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more. – Sam Walton
People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who’s going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren’t represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy. – Samantha Power
You have to be aware of what the audience’s expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren’t looking. – Wes Craven
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment – this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another. – Tullian Tchividjian
Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh. – Thomas J. Sargent
Other people may not have had high expectations for me… but I had high expectations for myself. – Shannon Miller
I know that there’s people that have expectations of me, and I’m a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy. – Yvette Nicole Brown
It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, ‘Oh, the last one was the best one.’ It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one. – Yuji Horii
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere. – Wendy Kopp
There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. – Stephen Covey
I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there’s always going to be expectations. – Stephanie Sigman
I’m not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that’s great, it also imposes certain pressures. – Sally Hawkins
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions. – Simon Sinek
I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times. – Trent Dilfer