I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse.
While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.
Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want.
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.
It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.
I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
