#expectation

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#continues #expectation #i #success #then

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed. ↗

— Terrell Owens

#disappointed #expectations #never #reality #will

I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#actually #admire #anyone #beats #career

The biggest problems with movies are expectations. ↗

— Frank Oz

#biggest problems #expectations #movies #problems

We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure. ↗

— PSY

#because #dance #dancing #expectations #huge

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amount #audience #communicating #denying #exist

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#big #cheering #course #create #ear

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#condition #conducive #expectations #goal #happy

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe