Sophie Swetchine Quotes

You're never as ready as you think you are. You're never as ready as you need to be.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

I am not taking anything for granted.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

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.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.

I feel whenever my shows are too hyped, they usually don't work.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.