Quotes About Expectations

There's no such thing as a free lunch." Consciously or unconsciously, nearly everyone keeps score of favors and gestures, and everyone is sensitive to being shortchanged.

People who were coddled often are needy or manipulative or become highly emotional when they're expected to do something they don't want to do.

How should a system convince people that they do not possess their sex properly? Teach them that in their possession it is shapeless and unconditioned. Only once it has been modified, layered with experts, honeycombed with norms, overlaid with pictorial representations, and sold back to them can it fulfill itself as what its possessors "always wanted".

If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of "health" imperative is not moral. It is grooming.

I once heard someone say, "If you are standing in line at the judgment seat and see a line with a bunch of preachers in it, get in another line. It will go faster.

What customers say they want is often different from what they actually want.

The churches delivering experiences that exceed guests' expectations are those to which people return, again and again, until they're no longer guests but full-fledged members of the church community. When a guest thinks "Wow!" it is because he or she feels affirmed and valued. The church has said, "You matter." Accepting

the organization is shaped by the expectations of others when those others have particular images of the organization.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves. The good news is that people generally rise to the level of expectations placed on them.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

If you retired in 1960, you could expect to get back seven times more in benefits than you paid in Social Security taxes, and more if you were a low-income worker, as long as you made it to age 78 for men and 81 for women. As recently as 1985, workers at every income level could retire and expect to get more in benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes, though they didn't do quite as well as their parents and grandparents. Not anymore.

Understand the power of a novel's opening lines. It sets expectations & draws the reader into the book's world.

How did we take this life picture and somehow misconstrue it to mean that if we just believed in Jesus, our lives would be wealthy, prosperous, and happy? Jesus doesn't promise that. Jesus says that many great things will come to those who follow Him, but He also promises a whole lot of lousy. And here's the key: The lousy isn't rotten. The lousy isn't sin. The focus of your life is not supposed to be dodging lousy. Because lousy is life. And lousy is important.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

If you must think about the future, try to have no expectations about it. Trust in God

One of the things that (we) religious people often do is try to change ourselves into what we think God or the Church wants us to be like.

Iíve seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true

If you're inclined to worry, society sure has given you a good selection.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics