High Expectations Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.

  Nicki Minaj

  Thinking, Perfect, Expectations

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

  Charles Kennedy

  Teacher, Children, Should Have

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• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Richard Ernst

  School, Technology, Zurich

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• I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Grateful, Two, Expectations

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• I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

  Mary Decker

  Expectations, Relax, Boots

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• What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

  Sharon Creech

  Courage, Fear, People

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

  Jeb Bush

  Children, Expectations, Achieve

  "Jeb Bush Speaks Out". Education Next Interview, educationnext.org. November 12, 2014.

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• I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

  Neal H. Moritz

  Hate, Expectations, Beats

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Expectations, Use, Pressure

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• The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

  Wes Moore

  Play, Expectations, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Resentment, Kind

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

  Famke Janssen

  Disappointment, People, Expectations

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• I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

  Wentworth Miller

  Mean, Expectations, Want

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• It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

  Art Garfunkel

  Greatness, Men, Vision

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• When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

  Bryan Cranston

  Expectations, Insecurity

  "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.

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• The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she is unskilled, she leaves scars on the lives of youth, cuts deeply into their self-esteem, and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if she loves her students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• I kind of - I like my life, I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Opportunity

  "TalkAsia" with Sara Sidner, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2012.

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• In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Expectations, Office

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• Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

  Landon Donovan

  Player, Expectations, Pressure

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• I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would prefer to have been in this world and published fewer works than I would publishing the books that would reveal the process of the changes.

  Lucie Brock-Broido

  Book, Thinking, Expectations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

  Ann Richards

  Mother, Nurse, Expectations

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• To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

  Kerri Walsh

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

  Allan Bloom

  Self, Effectiveness, Expectations

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 285, 1990.

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• I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Expectations, Beaten

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