Mike Vogel Quotes

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

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