I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they’ve met that. – James Turrell
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience. – Atom Egoyan
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them. – Charles Kennedy
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. – Candice Bergen
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing – I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I’m able to accomplish. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud. – Anna Deavere Smith
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In this industry, where things change so quickly, I’ve found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go. – Brie Larson
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. – Bruce Lee
I’ve already exceeded my expectations for myself. I’m one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be… I never thought the things I’ve experienced in my life, I didn’t think that was the life that I was gonna get to live. – Ashton Kutcher
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. – Bill Bradley
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn’t something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for. – Beck
I think the danger with using the term ‘trilogy’ is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader’s mind. – Alastair Reynolds
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. – Barbara Ehrenreich
I think I don’t really have any expectations; I don’t look at the season as a whole – I look at it race by race. – Casey Stoner
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. – Amar Bose
If you aren’t going to make your revenue plan, it’s unlikely you’ll make your EBITDA or Net Income plan. You don’t even have to get complicated and look at Gross Margin or more derivative metrics – if you are off in Q1 and have any sort of growth expectations , you are going to miss for the year. – Brad Feld
With ‘The Angel’s Game’, there was a lot of pressure from the expectations – expectations from the book industry and from readers; it’s natural. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It’s always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. – Bill Paxton
There’s always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it’s just important that you know how to handle expectations. – Carl Hagelin