Unmet Objectives Quotes

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.

I fear that the public at home expect too prompt results.

Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.

It has happened many a times where I have taken a project and wasn't happy about it.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Over my career, I'd watched senior leader visits have unintended negative consequences. Typically, schedules were unrealistically overloaded and were modified during the visit to cancel parts of the plan.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

Expectations were pretty low and they are meeting them.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

I'm always disappointed when I don't score.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

My first WPS season was a bust.

I really don't go much by expectations.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

I curse myself if I get out without making a 100 after crossing 40.

Roberto Mancini did not make the most of me.