Quotes About Expectations

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.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

Her father said, whenever the subject came up, that if she'd lose some weight, she'd find a boyfriend. She knew that wasn't necessarily the case, since plenty of girls who had perfect figures and were half her size couldn't find a boyfriend. And other girls who were overweight were happily married, engaged or had significant others.Romance, she knew, wasn't directed tied to your weight, there were a lot of other factors.

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o? to Egypt and told you that they weren't a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis.

She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was

Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke . . . but yeah, I mean it. What do you think?

An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.