Quotes About Expectations

There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

I married beneath me, all women do.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.