Quotes About Expectations

How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their work? It isn't. 9–5 is arbitrary.

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know? I've been there and

No one owes you anything.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore. —OPRAH WINFREY, actress and talk-show host, The Oprah Winfrey Show

Ravikant, Naval: "'Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want' (paraphrased

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Specifically, let's say you were interviewing Chris, you'd say, 'Everyone says Chris is great, but . . .' and then you'd sit there in silence. Do

The danger of maps, capable assistants, and planning is that you may end up living your life as planned. If you do, your potential cannot possibly exceed your expectations.

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Somewhere between college graduation and your second job, a chorus enters your internal dialogue: Be realistic and stop pretending. Life isn't like the movies.

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.

Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others.

La frustración es una cuestión de expectativas.»

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Es esencial perderse y cambiar de planes de vez en cuando. Es una fuente de creatividad y perspectiva. El peligro de los esquemas, los ayudantes capaces y la planificación es que puedes acabar viviendo la vida como si estuviera planeada. Y si haces eso, es posible que tu potencial no consiga superar tus expectativas.»

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore. —OPRAH WINFREY,

How has being "realistic" or "responsible" kept you from the life you want? How has doing what you "should" resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else?

Si intentas predecir lo que interesará [al público] y haces contorsiones para adaptarte a esas expectativas

I think we go about desiring things all day long, and then wondering why we're unhappy.

If my life is a house," she said, "you haven't even gotten to the living room.

Much of the disappointment and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.