Expectations Quotes

If the school principal is strong, motivated and a good manager who clearly outlines expectations for staff and students, then the school tends to make progress.

It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.

We want our clients to feel pampered beyond expectations.

I got high expectations for myself. I'm going to show you guys next year who I am. . . . One day you'll see.

We have a simple philosophy. Make sure the client's expectations are met financially, recognize that any project is successful through a team of people, and treat those people with respect.

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

Honestly, I have no expectations. That's why I'm playing fairly well.

We don't have realistic expectations of other women, that we're human and make mistakes and get sick of each other and do things to hurt each other, which is why when our friendships go south, it's such a sharp, sour surprise.

We came down with high expectations, but he's had a great month and a half. He's not just happy to be here, he's upset. When kids are long and lanky, you can find yourself tied up in ways you're not used to. That was a tough one to lose.

But I don't have those kind of expectations for Molly. I don't know whether it's because she has a different personality or because she is so much like me.

We remain concerned about the company's long-term outlook and management's preparedness to address the challenges. Still, built-in expectations or valuation appear to be low, and 2006 should benefit from the structural elimination of Brazil and a year of disappointing results in 2005.

People are buying the U.S. dollar across the board on expectation of further rate hikes. Rate expectations in Canada have come down. You will see more U.S. dollar strength on the yield gap.

How can you be upset with the year we've had? We went way beyond my expectations. Those kids . . . I thought they played their hearts out, and I thought they did the area proud.

Fans have been cheated. They've been hurt. Expectations weren't met. And that's the bottom line.

All reported lines were well above our expectations and far above consensus. We will review our model today and most likely increase our forecasts as well as our share price target.

The interim results are positive but may fall short of investor expectations.

I think coach was pretty disappointed. We are a really talented team and we had great expectations coming into the tournament. We're taking this as a poor tournament actually, a poor finish for us, because we thought we could have come in here and won.

That has changed the landscape and changed the expectations of people who live in those places. In that sense, the meaning of the word 'rural' has changed.

Managing expectations is our main thing this week. We need to play confidently, but also understand we're trying to accomplish our own goals. If we play own game, we can win the golf tournament.

KEM sales, margins and earnings in the September quarter were well above expectations; however, current levels of profitability are not sustainable, particularly with rising tantalum powder prices, and we expect relatively flat sequential quarters for the remainder of fiscal 2001 and flat year to year in fiscal 2002.

Maybe the expectations are more on the likes of Spurs and Arsenal. That could free us. Although we are happy enough to be in the mix, we are not content with just that. We want to make sure we do everything in our ability to get that Champions League place.