Quotes About Expectations

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.