#expecting

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#boston #college #confirm #everyone #expectations

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

#altered #believe #century #contradicted #educated

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #children #encounter #expecting #forever

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#alert #anything #audience #aware #caught

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#allowed #company #culture #delivered #expecting

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#expecting #film #intellectual #then #will

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. ↗

— Liz Phair

#am #back #break #conform #early

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#conducting #expecting #great #i #me

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#chiefly #ever #expecting #happy #life