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Zitat des Tages über Hohe Erwartungen / High Expectations:

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. Famke Janssen

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

James Wolcott

I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.

Amy Chua

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Richard Ernst

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Shannon Miller

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Jack Levine

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Uma Thurman

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Elisabeth Shue

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Amy Tan

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.

Morris Dees

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

Vinny Testaverde

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

Famke Janssen

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

Caroline Kennedy

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Charles Kennedy

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Jeb Bush

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.

Christopher Miller

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

Hannah Kent

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Mary Decker

I live for the high expectations.

Ezekiel Elliott

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Bob Beauprez

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Joseph Altuzarra

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

Katherine Waterston

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Amy Chua

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

Mireille Guiliano

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

Brett Young

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

Walter Becker

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

Neil Strauss

I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

Dan Gilbert

I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have very high expectations for Obama, and I am extremely hopeful that he will bring great lasting change not just to America, but to the entire world.

Texas Battle

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Ann Richards

I always have high expectations for me.

Nelson Cruz

I was very lucky - I grew up with two parents who loved each other and gave me unconditional love. They set high expectations for me, and they gave me an infinite amount of support. So I stand on their shoulders; I follow their example in every way.

Valerie Jarrett

I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.

Amy Klobuchar

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Wentworth Miller