That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.
Amy Chua
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.
I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.
Amy Klobuchar
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Amy Tan
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
I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.
Anne-Marie
When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.
Ara Parseghian
At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That's why you want to play here or coach here.
Ben Howland
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.
Benoit Mandelbrot
My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'
Beto O'Rourke
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Bob Beauprez
I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.
Brett Young
John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.
Caroline Kennedy
Benitez is a coach with high expectations of his players, he demands a lot and I like that. He knows how to communicate with his players and he is intelligent.
Casemiro
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Charles Kennedy
It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
Christopher Miller
Real Madrid has a lot of high expectations, not only in terms of results but also with nice football and a lot of goals.
Clarence Seedorf
I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
Dak Prescott
I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.
I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.
Half the people might like me - the other half might not. But throughout my life, I have had high expectations for myself - so I just try to make the non-believers into believers.
I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.
I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.
I live for the high expectations.
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.
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.
The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.
My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
My second year was particularly difficult because I had high expectations.
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
I set really high expectations.
I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.
Nobody really knows how I fight or what I'm capable of. Nobody has high expectations for me. I get to go out and prove I belong.
I feel like a lot of my fans hold high expectations of me when it comes to inside the Octagon - not so much outside of the Octagon - but I feel like most of my performances are pretty dominant, so I don't feel like I have the luxury to not perform in an extremely impressive fashion.
I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.
My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.
There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.
I went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart for four years. It was interesting to me because, in a family where men were clearly favored over women, this was an atmosphere, a world, run by strong, determined, smart women in leadership, who had high expectations of the girls, and this tremendous sense of love and commitment to the wider world.
