Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.
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.
Expectations are an evil thing.
I feel like if you don't put too much expectations and too much high hopes into things, everything will fall into place.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.
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.
There are certain people who aren't with me any more, but they're with me in spirit. I just want to do them proud and live up to expectations that they had.
I use my interaction with both my kids to know how the youth today relates to technology, their expectations in terms of mobility and social solutions by customer services-oriented businesses like banking.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their 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.
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
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.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
