#expectation

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#expectation #hardest #point #point of view #really

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look. ↗

— Emily Procter

#always #careful #clothes #could #deserve

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. ↗

— Sally Ride

#american #american woman #be the first #carried #expectations

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#expectations #framework #knowing #reader #write

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you. Born through your dreams, crystallised into form by your desires, given impetus by your expectations, then made real through your beliefs. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#beliefs #born #desires #dreams #exist

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#come #enough #expectations #had #heard

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#deal #everything #expectations #going #grand

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#expectation #greater #his #relying #satisfaction

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#anybody #expectations #i #icons #live