Quotes About Expectations

Truth be told, in determining what you want and who you want to be with, you will be compromising in certain areas. It can be in the area of appearance or occupation or maybe even certain personality characteristics, but no one person can have everything.

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

What kind of a place is Expectations? inquired Milo,unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity. Good question, good question, he exclaimed. Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

When the hour comes it is to remind him of a story. Synopsis: A French girl says to her suitor: "Did you ask my father for my hand at nine o'clock this morning, as you said you would?" "I did not," he. replies. "At nine o'clock I was fighting a duel with swords in the Bois de Boulogne." "Coward!" she hisses.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

I'm afraid I'm not working out according to plan, he said. But if I am really a person you shouldn't expect me to. Why did you make me without making a world for me to live in. It's as though God had made Adam and not bothered to make Eden, nor Eve. I think it's going to be frightfully difficult being me.

Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

For better or worse, most people's lives seem to turn out rather differently from what they had expected

Reflecting on the process of involvement and disenchantment which was marriage, she thought that one entered it unsuspecting and, unsuspecting, found one was trapped in it.

You teach people how to treat you.

People believe marriage will make us better.

Sami wywo?ujemy u siebie stres, poniewa? czujemy, ?e musimy co? zrobi?. Musimy. Ja ju? tak nie czuj?.

It can upset people when you exceed the limited expectations they've always had for you.)

As women we've been programmed to sacrifice everything in the name of what is good and right for everyone else. Then if there's an inch left over, maybe we can have a piece of that. We need to deprogram ourselves.

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.

AÅŸk evlilikten sonra gelir. Unutma: Evlenmeden önce alevlenen aÅŸk yang?n? evlilikle söner ve geriye boÅŸ ve kederli bir yang?n yeri kal?r. Evlendikten sonra duyulan aÅŸk da biter elbette, ama onun yerini mutluluk al?r. Buna raÄŸmen baz? aceleci budalalar evlenmeden önce â??k olup yana yana bütün aÅŸk? tüketirler. Niye? Çünkü hayatta en büyük amac? aÅŸk sanarlar.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life.

Tuturor ni se întâmpl? asta: dup? ce ne facem iluzii s?pt?mâni ori ani de-a rândul, crezând c? ceea ce gândim este îndrept??it, vedem într-o bun? zi ceva - un chip, un veÅŸmânt, un om fericit - ÅŸi pricepem într-o clip? c? dorinÅ£ele noastre deÅŸarte nu se vor împlini niciodat?.

In reaction to being overly logical we'll feed fantasies for weeks and years on end, and one day we'll see something, a face, an outfit, a happy person, and suddenly realize that our dreams will never come true; thus, we come to understand that a particular maiden won't be permitted to marry us or that we'll never reach such-and-such a station in life.

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.