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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

  Topics in Business, Expectations

  Tags in Reality

• It’s time for you to live your own life without worrying about the expectations of others.

  Unknown

  Topics in Expectations, Life

  Tags in Live

• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

  Edith Pargeter

  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectation.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Topics in Achievement, Expectations

• I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

  David Guterson

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Successful

• Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar.

  Edward H. Harriman

  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Everybody, Mind

• We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

  William Howard Taft

  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

  Trent Dilfer

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Honestly

• The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn’t fit with expectation – I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

  David Knopfler

  Topics in Expectations

• You know, I find it so difficult being a… as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

  Werner Klemperer

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Fact

• Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Topics in Expectations, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Remarkable, Down

• 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

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Film, Worked

• I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you’re trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, High, Through

• What is it they want from the man that they didn’t get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he’s done with his work, what’s any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

  William Gaddis

  Topics in Expectations, Work

  Tags in Man

• We tend to live up to our expectations.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Expectations, Wisdom

  Tags in Ourselves

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Attitude, Expectations

  Tags in Ourselves

• But if I worried too much about publishers’ expectations, I’d probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

  David Baldacci

  Topics in Expectations

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Self, Experienced, Pressure

• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Expect

• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

  William Congreve

  Topics in Expectations, Life

  Tags in Uncertainty