Quotes About Expectations

No human being was ever meant to be the source of personal joy and contentment for someone else. And surely, no sinner is ever going to be able to pull that off day after day in the all-encompassing relationship of marriage!

Our relationships will never work according to our plan

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Are you frustrated with someone in your life? Have you been trying to reshape her to fit into your personal preferences?

the reality our imagination embraces is the reality we will live by. If we are not captured by the truth of living in a deeply personal relationship with God, we will shrink our expectations and dreams down to the size of our own selfish wants, desires, and strategies.

In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade generated expectations of progress.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Qui mi fanno lavorare su cazzate, poi tutte stronzate! E il bello è che poi arriva il cliente e dice che non sono abbastanza stronzate! Troppo raffinate...

Il futuro è una scatola vuota in cui metti tutte le tue illusioni.

Most people live sad lives because they have they have succeeded in designing and perfecting a path to sorrow thinking they are building a road to happiness. I will be happy if I befriend or even marry this rich fool, if I buy this worthless tool, if I sit on this corrupted stool, if I drown and kill myself in a debt pool, if I wear this dirty wool, if I ride on this dangerous bull.

Living in the present doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't plan ahead. You need to have an intention in mind when you embark on something, but the thing to do is make plans and then wait to see what happens. There are no guarantees.

Playing Doctor Who came as a great surprise to me. I had no idea that I would enjoy it so much. All that was required of me was to be able to speak complete gobbledygook with conviction.

I enjoyed what I read, but since I regarded- and regard- Saunder's work roughly as salable as a Hefty bag filled with hypos, I was too depressed to even write him back. I also suspected that, if I did, I was going to get an extremely loquacious pen pal (and perhaps even increasingly nude photos).

Barry Schwartz's distinction between maximizers and satisficers has given us the counterintuitive insight that restricting our choices in life can actually lead to greater happiness and satisfaction, and

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Each time you give trust in advance of demonstrated performance, you flirt with danger. If you're risk-averse, you won't do it. And that's a shame, because the most effective way to gain the trust and loyalty of those beneath you is to give the same in equal measure.

It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description.

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.