I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
~ Peter Drucker
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
~ Christopher Miller
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
~ Lawrence Kohlberg
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
~ Andrea Bocelli
High expectations are the key to everything.
~ Sam Walton
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
~ Brian Tracy
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.
~ Martha Beck
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
~ Q-Tip
I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
~ Ranbir Kapoor
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 González Iñárritu
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
~ Lynn Coady
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
~ Naomie Harris
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
~ Tina Weymouth
Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
~ John Rampton
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
~ David Nicholls
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
~ Denis Waitley
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
~ Sylvester Stallone
