#expectation

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#day #discovers #displays #each #ever

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#i #magician #me #people

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#anyone #bad #business #chance #disappear

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#build #children #damn #die #done

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#expectations #milestones #opportunity #ordinary #ordinary people

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way. ↗

— Norton Juster

#communicating #expectation #i #i think #important

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#academic #because #being #book #childhood

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#being #constantly #could #expectations #fictions

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual. ↗

— David Kay

#believe #certainly #different #estimates #ever