New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous. – Sri Mulyani Indrawati
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward. – William T. Vollmann
SpaceX is very unusual. I don’t know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations. – Steve Jurvetson
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. – Samuel Alexander
People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don’t like to be classified. – Tobias Hill
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. – Suze Orman
The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also – and this is the awesome part – now there are fans, too! – Tim Federle
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. – Zig Ziglar
I’m a junkie for exhaustion, and I’m a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. – Stephen Colbert
Well, for us, it’s always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it’s always a big plus no matter what happens. – Ville Valo
When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. – Stephen Hawking
YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show’s community. – Ze Frank
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. – Thomas J. Sargent
Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible. – Yotam Ottolenghi
The pressure is all self-imposed, and it’s to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It’s actually more than that, though. I wouldn’t want to make a record that didn’t live up to my expectations. – Tom Scholz
The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations. – Salva Kiir Mayardit
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don’t expect them to learn, if you don’t expect them to succeed – then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. – Tavis Smiley
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
It makes my skin crawl when people tell me, ‘Don’t worry, you’ll get another series.’ Their expectations have little to do with mine. – Stephanie Zimbalist
When I put out a record or single I don’t allow myself to set up expectations like, ‘This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.’ – Scott Weiland
‘House of Balloons’ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one. – The Weeknd
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all. – V. S. Naipaul
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.’ – Tavis Smiley
