Quotes About Expectations

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

Boys don't cry—or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

Excellence! We all want it from others and we should want it from ourselves.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.