#high expectations

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself. ↗

— Shannon Miller

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John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

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The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. ↗

— Amy Tan

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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. ↗

— Mary Decker

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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

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I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here. ↗

— Vinny Testaverde

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