Expectations Quotes

My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a 'yes' to the isness, because it's pointless to argue if it already is.A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or 'don't want' what is.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

Let mortal man keep to his ownMortality, and not expect too much.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing.

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

I always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along - but it was easy. He was the only one that came along.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.