People's Expectations Quotes
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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
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
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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
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
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
Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.
— Shannon L. Alder
People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.
— Tobias Hill
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
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
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
— Kangana Ranaut
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
Catherine, people don't always live up to our expectations. Sometimes, they live up to their own.
From Our Lady of Stone, an unpublished play — Vanda
From Our Lady of Stone, an unpublished play — Vanda
If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.
— John C. Maxwell
He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
— Robert Jordan
She's always going on about how we're not supposed to let people's expectations limit our choices.
— Alex Gino
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
— Pat Summitt
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
When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations.
— L.J.Smith
When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
— Catherine Deneuve
Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.
— Behdad Sami
I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
— Yvette Nicole Brown
You ask me, and I'll tell you the truth - anything out of people's usual expectations throws them off track.
— J.A. Redmerski
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
People's expectations of us are almost always who we become.
— Stefan Molyneux
People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.
— Erin Davie
When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.
— A. Saleh
There was just something about other people's expectations that made her freeze in place, unable to function.
— Jessica Clare
Love is giving with no expectations ... Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
— Bernie Siegel
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
— Pamela Anderson
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
— Rob Zombie
Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.
— Epictetus
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
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.
— Gwendoline Christie
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
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
— Mike Huckabee
Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
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
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 must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently.
— Norhafsah Hamid
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
The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!
— Garrison Wynn
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
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 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
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
— John Frusciante
I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.
— Louise Hay
High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.
— Paul Hersey
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 are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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 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
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
— Charles Dickens
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
— Lindsey Buckingham