Expectation Gap Quotes

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.

There is a yawning discrepancy of what Americans expect and for what they are willing to pay.

It seems no matter what I read I think 'this is not Harry Potter.'

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

You can have a wonderful time doing a movie and believe in it completely, and then you see the final product, and it doesn't look anything like what you thought it was going to.

For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am.

I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Daawat-E-Ishq' did not do as well as we expected, so yes, when a film doesn't do as well as you wanted it to, it hurts, especially after you have put your sweat and blood on it.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why.

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to screen and it's not exactly what was in my head or what I was imagining it should be.

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

No. 2 pick, you're supposed to do a job - you're supposed to turn the franchise around. And I don't think I did it to the best of my abilities. I didn't live up to that standard.