Quotes About Expectations

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.