Quotes About Expectations

When he is done he feels not a burden removed from his shoulders and not an easing of his load but a strange sagging sense of disappointment, as if...he has deflated something whose power might have raised him up.

I felt I would live a long, lonely, useless life and die alone and unmissed (did I mention that I never bothered filling out any grad-school applications?) It's self-indulgent, I know, but this is what happens to the overachieving but essentially useless children of parents who raised their children to do well on tests but failed to equip them with the poison-tipped spurs of true ambition.

When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness.

It is a hard message to swallow at first blush because it brings into question everything that we think we are, which for the most part seems to come from what we identify with, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our values, our work, our expectations of what is "supposed" to happen and how things are "supposed" to work out for me in order for me to be happy, our stories of where we came from and where we are going and of who we are.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.