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I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own? — David Levithan

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception ... you see what is, where most people see what they expect. — Tsitsi Dangarembga

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity? — Tilda Swinton

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to. — Tony Robbins

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. — Elizabeth Bowen

Living up to other people's expectations is always difficult. — Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark

It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else. — Sartika Kurniali

It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations. — Dilip Shanghvi

God honors and blesses people of action beyond expectations. — Sunday Adelaja

...People so often ignored their gut because of social niceties and expectations. Luckily Dax didn't have that issue; he was barely fucking civilized. — Katie Reus

People are not here to meet your expectations. — Leo Buscaglia

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence? — Gene Stallings

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave. — Nicholas Sparks

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. — Rosemary Clooney

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

A lot of people have high expectations. I'm just going to do the best I can. — Deron Williams

Other people may not have had high expectations for me ... but I had high expectations for myself. — Shannon Miller

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations. — Stephanie Sigman

Problem with attempting to live up to other people's expectations was that you were destined to fail before you even began. I — Denise Grover Swank

When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult. — Christine D. Pohl

Cultures aren't so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people. — Jeff Bezos

I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it. — Nathalie Kelley

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation. — Chuck Klosterman

You can't base your life on other people's expectations. — Stevie Wonder

The one thing I've always had going for me was people's low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me. — Chris Isaak

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself! — Garrison Wynn

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in. — Barbara Kingsolver

Love is giving with no expectations ... Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved. — Bernie Siegel

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations. — John C. Maxwell

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. — Frederick Salomon Perls

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. — Kevin Smith

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people. — John Frusciante

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young. — Dustin Clare

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers. — Steven Sinofsky

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations. — Alexander McCall Smith

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be. — Justin Timberlake

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations. — Charles R. Swindoll

Didn't normal simply mean conforming to other people's expectations? — Jim Buckner

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. — Rob Zombie

There was just something about other people's expectations that made her freeze in place, unable to function. — Jessica Clare

Do what makes you happy. Life is too short to live on other people's expectations — Amefil

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. — James Brown

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. — Robert Jordan

Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself. — Ellen Airgood

I'd become more adept at being with other people; I'd lowered my expectations of them and learned to let my mind drift into neutral when they spoke. — Sebastian Faulks

To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies. — Robin Hobb

Don't waste your life living out other people's expectations. — Tai Sheridan

We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it. — Jurgen Klinsmann

Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician. — Ruud Gullit

I know so much about other people's expectations and so little about my own. — Martin Pistorius

People having expectations maybe means they've enjoyed what I've done. — John Mulaney

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get. — Epictetus

People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around. — Nicki Minaj

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. — Gwendoline Christie

Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people. — Debasish Mridha

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things. — Oprah Winfrey

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations. — Caitlyn Jenner

It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself. — Jay Parini

-but what people expect can change you in the end. — Justin Go

I will try to live up to expectations of people; will present report card to people in 2019. — Narendra Modi

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life. — Anne Frasier

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor. — Ben Stiller

Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people's expectations. — Mark Lawrence

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact. — Paul Hersey

I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently. — Norhafsah Hamid

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations. — Gillian Jacobs

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. — Julia Cameron

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy. — Charmian Hussey

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not. — Howard Schultz

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!" — Jazmine Sullivan

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me. — Louise Hay

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done. — Tamala Jones

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. — Lindsey Buckingham

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself. — Brandon Sanderson

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment. — Isaac Asimov

Put your expectations on God, not on people. — Joyce Meyer

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself. — Steve Grand