Quotes About Expectations

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

I don't think golf has ever been any pressure as far as having to succeed.

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

My parents didn't want me to go into show business. They were afraid of what would happen if I didn't succeed. They wanted me to get married and have babies. I never saw marriage and family in my life.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.

Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates

I agreed to do it, but the night the show was opening, March 12, 1998, was the coldest

It was the impossible physical expectations that pushed me towards a more commercial trajectory. My body was becoming more womanly, it was a natural thing, and my mother wanted me to feel proud of that, not ashamed. Trying to steer my body away from its natural curviness would have been physically unhealthy so instead I steered my career towards an audience who would identify with it and embrace it.

The fashion industry is based on these images that don't exist.

The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise.

Women are regarded as upholding the traditions by conforming to them; men on the other hand uphold traditions by enforcing them—not upon themselves but upon women.

Promises are prisons, after all, and the breaking of a promise can poison.

You don't fit in with people's expectations. You're not quite the same as they are, and because of that you make them feel uncomfortable. But instead of trying to understand what you are, for yourself, they dislike you for making them feel uncomfortable.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.

Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree...

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Everyone wants to be accepted by a world that is unacceptable

Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think.