#expectation

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

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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. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more. ↗

— Bruce Oldfield

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And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I'm not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we're playing Division II. ↗

— Cat Osterman

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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. ↗

— Fritz Perls

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It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait. ↗

— Emily Procter

#being #business #expectation #fit #going

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security. ↗

— Susan Rice

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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

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The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points. ↗

— John Sununu

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