If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

The line urges resistance to externally imposed narratives—particularly discouraging judgments that can become self-fulfilling. By “accept[ing] the expectations of others,” a person internalizes someone else’s ceiling for what is possible; the quote frames that internalization as the real mechanism that fixes “the outcome.” Read this way, it aligns with a broader ethos often associated with elite competition: performance depends not only on skill but on psychological autonomy—maintaining one’s own standards, goals, and belief in improvement despite criticism. Its emphasis is less on denying reality than on refusing to let others’ pessimism dictate effort, risk-taking, or persistence.